Parasternal (internal mammary) nodes
Local vessels and regional nodes · Medial breast
A small chain alongside the internal thoracic vessels in the upper intercostal spaces takes the medial breast, anterior chest wall, upper anterior abdominal wall and part of the liver, and drains onward into the bronchomediastinal trunk.
Traced from the start
- Breast
- Parasternal (internal mammary) nodes
Detail
- Position
- Along the internal thoracic (mammary) vessels
- Receives
- Medial breast, anterior chest wall, diaphragm, liver via the falciform ligament
- Efferents
- Bronchomediastinal trunk
When it goes wrong
Medial or central breast carcinoma
Parasternal nodal spread that axillary sampling cannot detect
Practise this structure
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