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Prasad Guntur Ramkumar1, Brooke Lawson, Ewan Eadie
1From the Departments of *Clinical Radiology and †Nuclear Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|December 18, 2015
Abstract:
We report an unusual artifact, which was seen on a routine preoperative chest radiograph performed in a patient with breast cancer, before an elective mastectomy. Subsequently, this was identified to be secondary to a preoperative sentinel node injection. The report discusses the diagnostic dilemma caused by this artifact and raises the awareness of this possibility in patients undergoing these commonly performed procedures and investigations.