EFFECT OF NODAL METASTASIS ON THE PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH ENDOMETRIAL CANCER
- VernacularTitle:子宫内膜癌淋巴结转移对预后的影响
- Author:
Kege TIAN
;
Caiying FU
;
Defeng CHAI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
endometrial neoplasms;
lymph node;
metastasis;
prognosis
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
1981;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
To study the nodal distribution in endometrial carcinoma and to evaluate its effect on recurrence and survival, 230 patients with endometrial carcinoma were reviewed and analyzed. 32(20 25%)cases were found to have lymph node metastasis. Stage Ⅲc disease was defined by positive PLN alone in 22 cases, positive PLN and PALN in 4 cases, and positive PALN alone in 6 cases. Positive peritoneal cytology and adnexal metastasis were present in 10 patients. Only 2/10 of these patients had isolated positive PLN whereas 8/10 had positive PALN ( P 0 05). These findings indicate that PALN involvement is common in patients with FIGO Stage Ⅲc endometrial cancer, and suggest that PLN sampling alone may result in underdiagnosis of disease, and dissection of PALN may have a significant therapeutic role.
