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Contrast-enhanced computed tomography detection of occult breast cancers presenting as axillary masses
S Akashi-Tanaka1, T Fukutomi, K Miyakawa
1Department of Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. sakashi@gan2.ncc.go.jp
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
|September 3, 1999
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.