Abstract

The carcinoma breast is one of the most common carcinoma of the women with the other one being carcinoma cervix. The carcinoma breast usually metastasizes to axillary nodes in about 75 % of the cases followed by internal mammary nodes. The involvement of internal mammary nodes is usually overlooked and PET CT, MRI are the most common investigation done to recognize the involvement. The involvement of the internal mammary nodes usually upstages the disease shifting the treatment choice from surgery to neo adjuvant chemotherapy. In this study the incidence of internal mammary nodes in response to various stage and various quadrants of carcinoma breast were studied using contrast enhanced computed tomogram and the following results was observed, the nodes were more commonly involved in upper inner / medial quadrant and in correspondence to stage it was more common in stage III disease.

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