A MRM is a variation of the total mastectomy, which removes the entire breast including the lymph nodes under the arm (called
an axillary lymph node dissection) while sparing the pectoralis major muscle.
Within a few months of his diagnosis of primary cutaneous T - cell lymphoma, he developed systemic involvement of T - cell lymphoma in
an axillary lymph node, bone marrow and lung.
All patients had negative
axillary lymph nodes on pathology and documented axillary surgical procedure.
Not exact matches
The study involved women with
axillary node - positive (cancer in the
lymph glands under the arm) or high - risk node - negative breast cancer (no cancer in under arm nodes, but cancer with bad prognostic features).
African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique,
axillary sentinel
lymph node (SLN) biopsy, even as the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Tissues tested included peripheral nerves (PN),
axillary (ax) and mesenteric (mes)
lymph nodes (LN), lung, meninges / dura mater (dura), spleen, cerebrum, skeletal muscle (sk musc), heart, spinal cord (SC), and joint synovium (jt syno).
Those fixed for histology, placed in tissue culture, and snap - frozen in OCT for cryosectioning included the heart, pericardium, bladder, knee and elbow joint tissues, skeletal muscle (bicep and quadriceps), dura mater, brain (cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem), back skin,
axillary and mesenteric
lymph nodes, spleen, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia, and peripheral nerves (sural, tibial, ulnar and median).
Assessing accuracy of pre-operative imaging in identifying
axillary metastasis and assessing accuracy of sentinel
lymph node biopsy in patients with IBC
Submandibular, prescapular,
axillary, inguinal, and popliteal
lymph nodes should all be evaluated.