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Magnetic resonance imaging breast: An essential imaging modality in metastatic axillary lymphadenopathy with unknown primary
Nitin Gupta, Mitusha Verma, Amit Choudhari, Deepak Patkar
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Nitin Gupta
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jrcr.jrcr_17_18
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Occult primary breast carcinoma with axillary lymph node metastasis is a rare disorder accounting for 0.1%–0.8% of all the cases of breast cancer in females. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast detects primary tumor in nearly 70% of patients. We are presenting three cases of postmenopausal females, who presented with metastatic axillary lymphadenopathy and primary could be diagnosed only on MRI breast. |
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