The mandatory role of groin lymphadenectomy in clinical Stages IB and II vulvar cancer
To analyze the prevalence of inguinofemoral lymph nodes metastases in clinical Stages IB-II vulva cancer. Twenty-two patients with FIGO Stages IB-II FIGO vulva cancer with no clinically and imagistic evidence of nodes metastases were treated in the present clinic. The surgical procedures consisted i...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European journal of gynaecological oncology 2016, Vol.37 (1), p.86-88 |
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Zusammenfassung: | To analyze the prevalence of inguinofemoral lymph nodes metastases in clinical Stages IB-II vulva cancer.
Twenty-two patients with FIGO Stages IB-II FIGO vulva cancer with no clinically and imagistic evidence of nodes metastases were treated in the present clinic. The surgical procedures consisted in radical vulvectomy plus inguinofemoral lym- phadenectomy.
The final pathological result was squamous carcinoma in 20 patients, vulva melanoma in one, and carcinosar- coma in one. The prevalence of positive lymph nodes was 45.4%. The median number of harvested lymph nodes was 14.0 per groin (between four and 27). Twelve patients (54.5%) developed some wound complications, but all were resolved. At the present time, 20 patients are alive, but the follow-up period is short for many of them; two patients died of disease.
The prevalence of groin metastases in Stages IB-II vulvar cancer is high. A thorough inguino-femoral dissection seems necessary, despite the high incidence of wound complications. |
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ISSN: | 0392-2936 |
DOI: | 10.12892/ejgo2783.2016 |