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Axillary Lymph Node Swelling Mimicking Breast Cancer Metastasis After COVID-19 Vaccination: A Japanese Case Report and Literature Review.

Nobuyasu Yoshimoto, Kohei Takura, Akemi Yanagi, Satoru Takayama, Masaki Sakamoto, Ken Ishikawa, Takeyasu Katada, Akifumi Kawate, Shoryu Takayama, Masakatsu Yamashita and 3 more

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Review in In vivo (Athens, Greece). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nobuyasu YoshimotoDepartment of Breast Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan; paris@s4.dion.ne.jp.
Kohei TakuraDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Akemi YanagiDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Satoru TakayamaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Masaki SakamotoDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Ken IshikawaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Takeyasu KatadaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Akifumi KawateDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Shoryu TakayamaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Masakatsu YamashitaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Shinya YamamotoDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Kioto YokoyamaDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Hisanori KaniDepartment of Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan.
Yao Tokushukai General Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

aimCOVID-19 started to spread as a pandemic in December 2019 and COVID-19 vaccination has been initiated worldwide. The efficacy of vaccination has been scientifically proven, but it might cause axillary lymph node swelling. To diagnose patients with axillary lymph node swelling caused by COVID-19 vaccination, we herein reviewed existing literature on this symptom. CASE REPORT: We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a breast tumour. She had undergone cecum cancer surgery and regular computed tomography (CT). During breast tumour follow-up, she received scheduled CT that indicated severe axillary lymph node swelling mimicking breast cancer metastasis. We performed aspiration biopsy cytology of that lymph node, and determined this was not cancer metastasis but an effect of the COVID-19 vaccine. We confirmed this diagnosis at one month after computed tomography showed that the lymph node swelling had improved.

conclusionAxillary lymph node swelling can occur after COVID-19 vaccination. Therefore, it is important to consider the effect of the COVID-19 vaccination on axillary lymph node swelling when diagnosing breast tumours.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCOVID-19AgedAxillaCOVID-19 VaccinesFemaleHumansJapanLymphatic MetastasisLymph NodesSARS-CoV-2Sentinel Lymph Node BiopsyVaccinationCOVID-19 Vaccinesaxillary lymph node swellingbreast cancerCOVID-19 vaccine

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PMID35241569
PMCPMC8931896
OpenAlexW4214941682

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