Fig. 3.From: Assessment of preoperative axillary nodal disease burden: breast MRI in locally advanced breast cancer before, during and after neoadjuvant endocrine therapySixty-nine year-old woman with ER + /HER2- locally advanced breast cancer on the left side treated with NET protocol, mastectomy and ALND. A, B and C, Axial T2-weighted (A) and T1-weighted (B and C) MR images show LNs with normal appearances at all MRI scans (from left to right, A and C: baseline, interim and posttreatment) throughout the course of treatment. B T1-weighted MR image shows a normal oval LN with cortical thickning of 1.7 mm and maximal diameter of 8 mm. D Corresponding photomicrograph (H and E, original magnification × 200) shows normal nodal tissueBack to article page