Contrast-enhanced computed tomography detection of occult breast cancers presenting as axillary masses

Breast Cancer Res Treat. 1999 May;55(1):97-101. doi: 10.1023/a:1006173113453.

Abstract

Some non-palpable breast cancers presenting as axillary metastases (occult breast cancer, OBC) are not clinically detectable by either mammography (MMG) or ultrasonography (US). We performed contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) in order to locate the primary tumors in five cases of OBC and succeeded in locating all of them.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Axilla
  • Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / secondary
  • Carcinoma, Lobular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Lobular / secondary
  • Contrast Media
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Contrast Media