Lymphatic drainage patterns from the breast.

摘要: The existence of lymphatic drainage the breast to axillary and extra-axillary sites has been known for centuries.1 Although also these latter nodes are sometimes contain metastatic disease, their removal never pursued enthusiastically. Interest in patterns cancer, however, is growing since introduction sentinel node procedure. Lymphatic mapping allows visualization identification possibility document patterns. The aim this study was describe all cancer patients who underwent a procedure at our institute. Our intratumoral tracer injection technique enables accurate from actual primary tumors.