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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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From: Correlation of primary tumor metabolic parameters with clinical, histopathological and molecular characteristics in breast cancer patients at pre-operative staging FDG-PET/CT study

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18F-FDG PET/CT scan of a 43-years-old female with luminal A Invasive Lobular carcinoma GII of the right breast: a maximum intensity projection, b trans axial PET show large hypermetabolic intense FDG-avid well-defined right breast lesion, located at its upper inner quadrant. c The corresponding CT and d trans axial PET/CT fusion images revealed that 18F-FDG uptake is corresponding to speculate soft tissue density lesion measures about 3.2 x 2.3 cm and has SUV max about 17.84. Also, noted enlarged level I right axillary lymph node measures about 2.3x 1.5 cm with SUV max about 3.5 at the thickened part of its cortex. The patient underwent right Lumpectomy & SLNB revealed positive metastatic axillary LNs

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