ReviewJapanese journal of radiology2018
Internal mammary lymph node metastases in breast cancer: what should radiologists know?
Review in Japanese journal of radiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- BI-RADS v2025 for breast ultrasound: key updates and Asian perspectives.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Incidental dose to internal mammary nodes in post-operative radiation therapy for breast cancer.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2025Article
- Internal mammary node failure in invasive breast cancer patients who received post-operative radiotherapy without prophylactic internal mammary node irradiation.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025Article
- Ultrasound assessment of lymph nodes for staging of gynecological cancer: consensus opinion on terminology and examination technique.Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2025Article
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- Internal mammary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients based on anatomical imaging and functional imaging.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2022Review
- Model-based inference of metastatic seeding rates in de novo metastatic breast cancer reveals the impact of secondary seeding and molecular subtype.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Comparison of nodal staging between CT, MRI, and [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2022Article
- Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer in Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes along the Translocated Left Internal Mammary Artery Bypass Graft.Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging · 2021Article
- Case Report: Intercostal Lymph Node Metastasis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
- Internal Mammary Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Clinically Axillary Lymph Node-Positive Breast Cancer: Diagnosis and Implications for Patient Management.Annals of surgical oncology · 2020Article
- Infiltration tendency of internal mammary lymph nodes involvement in patients with breast cancer: anatomical characteristics and implications for target delineation.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2019Article
- Clinical value of postoperative sentinel lymph node biopsy.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- Analysis of breast cancer subtypes and their correlations with receptors and ultrasound.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologieArticle
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The internal mammary lymph node (IMLN) chain is a pathway through which breast lymphatic drainage flows. The internal mammary lymphatic vessel runs around the internal mammary artery and veins with IMLN in the parasternal intercostal spaces. IMLN metastasis, which forms a part of clinical TNM staging, may negatively affect the prognosis of primary breast cancer patients. IMLN metastasis is clinically detected using ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and
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