The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of sentinel node frozen biopsy to minimize the extensive pelvic lymph nodes dissection in early stage cervical cancer patients on the basis that the risk of skip metastasis to the paraaortic area is negligible. Twenty-six patients with early stage cervical cancer were enrolled in this study. Technetium-99m colloid albumin (Tc(99m)) was injected intradermally around the tumor for allowing preoperative lymphoscintigraphy and intraoperative hand-held gama probe detection of seninel nodes. For visual detection, isosulfan blue dye was injected into the peritumoral sites before peritoneal opening. Postoperative morbidity and negative predictive value were the endpoints of this study. The 26 patients, ranging in age from 32 to 71 yr, underwent intraoperative sentinel nodes mapping. All the patients underwent complete pelvic lymph nodes dissection including para-aortic nodes. There was one case with positive non-sentinel nodes despite the negative sentinel node by frozen biopsy (negative predictive value, 95.2%). This new technique of sentinel node mapping is safe and simple to perform. Further clinical trials using the combination of Tc(99m) and isosulfan blue dye are warranted and this technique will make a true advance for less aggressive management of patients with early stage cervical cancer.
Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; *Lymph Node Excision ; Lymph Nodes/pathology/radionuclide imaging/*surgery ; Middle Aged ; Pelvic Neoplasms/*pathology/radionuclide imaging/surgery ; Pelvis ; Predictive Value of Tests ; Rosaniline Dyes/metabolism ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; *Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy ; Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin/diagnostic use ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/*pathology/radionuclide imaging/surgery

We report here two cases of foreign body granulomas that arose from the pelvic wall and liver, respectively, and simulated recurrent colorectal carcinomas in patients with a history of surgery. On contrast-enhanced CT and MR images, a pelvic wall mass appeared as a well-enhancing mass that had invaded the distal ureter, resulting in the development of hydronephrosis. In addition, a liver mass had a hypointense rim that corresponded to the fibrous wall on a T2-weighted MR image, and showed persistent peripheral enhancement that corresponded to the granulation tissues and fibrous wall on dynamic MR images. These lesions also displayed very intense homogeneous FDG uptake on PET/CT.
Adult ; Aged ; Colorectal Neoplasms/pathology/*surgery ; Contrast Media/diagnostic use ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/diagnostic use ; Granuloma, Foreign-Body/complications/*diagnosis ; Humans ; Hydronephrosis/etiology ; Image Enhancement/methods ; Liver/pathology/radionuclide imaging ; Liver Neoplasms/*diagnosis/secondary ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Pelvic Neoplasms/*diagnosis/secondary ; Pelvis/pathology/radiography ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Radiopharmaceuticals/diagnostic use ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed