ABSTRACT

A healthy assessment of the axilla is a basic requirement in the grading of breast cancer and determining the prognosis. Despite all of the imaging techniques at hand, tissue diagnosis remains to be the gold standard in the assessment of axillary lymphadenopathies in cases with a diagnosis of primary breast tumor. With this presentation, we aimed to discuss our case which seemed to be axillary metastatic lymphadenopathy according to imaging techniques, however supraclavicular tuberculosis lymphadenitis was detected simultaneously with axillary metastatic lymphadenopathy.

Keywords: Tuberculosis and breast cancer coexistence, lymphadenopathy, F18-fluorodeoxyglucose, positron emission tomography, ultrasound