AHMAD M MOUNİR, FARAH AHMED SHOKEİR, GHADA H ABD ELRAOUF
European Journal of Breast Health - 2025;21(2):141-153
Objective: Together with local invasion, one of the important characteristics of cancer is its capacity to spread, resulting in metastases. Before cancer cells metastasize to a secondary site, they must first enter and spread through the blood and lymph vasculature, this is known as lymphovascular invasion (LVI). This LVI and, to a much lesser extent, perineural and neural invasion are one of the biologic prerequisites for systemic spread and metastases. To evaluate the correlation between pre-operative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the ipsilateral enlarged axillary lymph nodes (LNs) and presence of LVI on post-operative pathology, in patients with invasive breast cancer.
