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ReviewJournal of medical radiation sciences2025

Sonographic localisation of lymph nodes suspicious of metastatic breast cancer to surgical axillary levels.

Michelle Fenech, Tracey Burke, Grace Arnett, Alisha Tanner, Natasha Werder

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Review in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07338721 (Does Using Ultrasound Guidance During Axillary Incision Improve Sentinel Lymph Node Detection Compared to Standard Methods in Breast Cancer Patients?), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT07338721 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Does Using Ultrasound Guidance During Axillary Incision Improve Sentinel Lymph Node Detection Compared to Standard Methods in Breast Cancer Patients?

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorAntalya Training and Research HospitalRan2026 to 2026Enrolled40ConditionsBreast Carcinoma, Sentinel Lymph Node BiopsyArmsUltrasound-guided axillary incision group, The standard axillary incision
3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michelle FenechCollege of Clinical Sciences, Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4088-2645
Tracey BurkeDepartment of Medical Imaging, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3669-3384
Grace ArnettDepartment of Medical Imaging, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3088-265X
Alisha TannerDepartment of Medical Imaging, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6000-9425
Natasha WerderDepartment of Medical Imaging, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6184-2880

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The axillary lymph node (LN) burden of breast cancer patients guides multidisciplinary management and treatment regimes. Sonographic imaging is used to identify the presence, number and location of axillary LNs suspicious of malignancy and used to guide nodal fine needle aspirations and biopsies. Axillary LNs suspicious of harbouring breast cancer metastasis can be localised to three surgical axillary levels, numbered according to their location relative to the pectoralis minor muscle and lymph flow. To sonographically identify and localise suspicious axillary LNs, an understanding of the axillary anatomy, muscular sonographic landmarks, surgical axillary levels, and the sonographic technique to image and distinguish between benign and suspicious LNs is required.

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AxillaBreast NeoplasmsLymphatic MetastasisLymph NodesFemaleHumansUltrasonographyAxilla levelsaxillary lymph node groupsaxilla ultrasoundbreast cancerlymph node sonographynodal metastasis

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PMID39552171
PMCPMC11909697

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