Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases

Male breast cancer is rare, accounting for less than 1% of breast cancers. Because of its rarity evidence of the usefulness sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for male breast cancer has not been established. Moreover, a navigation system which can easily determine the incision site of SLNB is needed...

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Main Authors:	Hashimoto, Naoki, Kudo, Yurie, Kurushima, Michihiro, Suzuki, Yamato, Yachi, Takafumi, Tokura, Tomohisa, Umehara, Yutaka, Nishikawa, Shinsuke, Takahashi, Kenichi, Morita, Takayuki, Narita, Fumiko
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Language:	English
Published:	Springer International Publishing 2013
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733075/

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spelling	pubmed-37330752013-08-05 Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases Hashimoto, Naoki Kudo, Yurie Kurushima, Michihiro Suzuki, Yamato Yachi, Takafumi Tokura, Tomohisa Umehara, Yutaka Nishikawa, Shinsuke Takahashi, Kenichi Morita, Takayuki Narita, Fumiko Case Study Male breast cancer is rare, accounting for less than 1% of breast cancers. Because of its rarity evidence of the usefulness sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for male breast cancer has not been established. Moreover, a navigation system which can easily determine the incision site of SLNB is needed because a second incision for SLNB is necessary in most cases. We report successful computed tomographic lymphography (CTLG)-guided SLNB in two male breast cancer cases: the first patient was a 79-year-old man and the second was a 64-year-old man. Both had presented with a lump behind the nipple. Clinical diagnoses were early breast carcinoma in both cases. The second patient took tamoxifen 20 mg daily as neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. SLNs were clearly visualized by CTLG, allowing mastectomies with SLNB to be performed. Both SLNB were negative, such that axillary lymph node dissection was not needed. Preoperative CTLG is useful for visualizing lymph flow and detecting SLN in male breast cancer. Springer International Publishing 2013-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3733075/ /pubmed/23961415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-351 Text en © Hashimoto et al.; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Hashimoto, Naoki Kudo, Yurie Kurushima, Michihiro Suzuki, Yamato Yachi, Takafumi Tokura, Tomohisa Umehara, Yutaka Nishikawa, Shinsuke Takahashi, Kenichi Morita, Takayuki Narita, Fumiko
spellingShingle	Hashimoto, Naoki Kudo, Yurie Kurushima, Michihiro Suzuki, Yamato Yachi, Takafumi Tokura, Tomohisa Umehara, Yutaka Nishikawa, Shinsuke Takahashi, Kenichi Morita, Takayuki Narita, Fumiko Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
author_facet	Hashimoto, Naoki Kudo, Yurie Kurushima, Michihiro Suzuki, Yamato Yachi, Takafumi Tokura, Tomohisa Umehara, Yutaka Nishikawa, Shinsuke Takahashi, Kenichi Morita, Takayuki Narita, Fumiko
author_sort	Hashimoto, Naoki
title	Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
title_short	Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
title_full	Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
title_fullStr	Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed	Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
title_sort	computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases
description	Male breast cancer is rare, accounting for less than 1% of breast cancers. Because of its rarity evidence of the usefulness sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for male breast cancer has not been established. Moreover, a navigation system which can easily determine the incision site of SLNB is needed because a second incision for SLNB is necessary in most cases. We report successful computed tomographic lymphography (CTLG)-guided SLNB in two male breast cancer cases: the first patient was a 79-year-old man and the second was a 64-year-old man. Both had presented with a lump behind the nipple. Clinical diagnoses were early breast carcinoma in both cases. The second patient took tamoxifen 20 mg daily as neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. SLNs were clearly visualized by CTLG, allowing mastectomies with SLNB to be performed. Both SLNB were negative, such that axillary lymph node dissection was not needed. Preoperative CTLG is useful for visualizing lymph flow and detecting SLN in male breast cancer.
publisher	Springer International Publishing
publishDate	2013
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733075/
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Computed tomographic lymphography for sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer: report of two cases

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