Presentation of Case* First admission. A thirty-six-year-old housewife entered the hospital because of a cough.Nineteen years previously a biopsy of an enlarged cervical lymph node showed chronic i ...

New data suggest that the majority of women with early-stage cervical cancer can safely undergo sentinel node biopsy instead of the standard and more invasive pelvic lymph node removal.

Surgical outcomes favored SLN biopsy, as pelvic lymphadenectomy was associated with significantly longer operation time (221 vs 189 minutes, P<0.0001), greater blood loss (160 vs 130 mL, P=0.001 ...

Prostate cancer often metastasizes to the regional lymph nodes, but metastases to distant supradiaphragmatic lymph nodes are uncommon. Rare case reports describe cervical lymph node metastases as ...

Cervical cancer is a diagnosis no woman wants to receive, and navigating the disease can be challenging. A type of cancer that starts in the cells of the cervix, this cancer usually develops slowly.

Biopsy of the left scalene lymph node was negative. Figure 1 Posteroanterior (A) and Lateral (B) Films of the Chest, in Case 1, Showing an Ill Defined Area of Increased Density in the Superior ...

In the current issue, Altgassen et al 1 report on a prospective multicenter study comprising the largest number of cervical cancer patients in a single study undergoing sentinel lymph node (SLN) ...

Results from the PHENIX-I trial support skipping pelvic lymphadenectomy in women with early cervical cancer who have a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy. Omitting pelvic lymphadenectomy in these ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy. This is a diagnostic procedure which involves surgical removal of the first lymph node or group of nodes (the sentinel node) which drain directly from the primary cancer ...

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for early cervical cancer achieved non-inferiority versus pelvic lymphadenectomy, according to results of a large randomized study from China. Patients assigned to ...