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http://dx.doi.org/10.13104/imri.2018.22.4.245

Contralateral Internal Mammary Lymphadenopathy Mimicking Metastasis in a Patient with a History of Breast Cancer and Prior Interstitial Mammoplasty by Paraffin Injection: MRI, PET-CT, and Pathological Findings  

Nam, Kyung Jin (Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Choo, Ki Seok (Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Kim, Jee Yeon (Department of Pathology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
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Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging / v.22, no.4, 2018 , pp. 245-248 More about this Journal
Abstract
Foreign body injections into breasts may produce foreign body reactions, fibrosis, and local swelling of involved lymph nodes, which can be misdiagnosed as metastasis or malignancy. Here, the authors report MR imaging, PET-CT imaging, and pathologic findings of contralateral internal mammary lymphadenopathy suspicious of breast cancer metastasis in a 58-year-old woman with history of left breast cancer, and previous interstitial mammoplasty by paraffin injection in both breasts.
Keywords
Paraffin; Lymphadenopathy; Internal mammary lymph nodes; Breast cancer metastasis; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT);
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