UNLABELLED In sentinel node (SN) biopsy, an interval SN is defined as a lymph node or group of lymph nodes located between the primary melanoma and an anatomically well-defined lymph node group directly draining the skin. As shown in previous reports, these interval SNs seem to be at the same metastatic risk as are SNs in the usual, classic areas. This study aimed to review the incidence, lymph...

PURPOSE Treatment of patients with para-aortic lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is controversial. The goal of this study was to investigate the technical feasibility of laparoscopic intrarenal para-aortic lymph node dissection in patients with colorectal cancer and clinically suspected para-aortic lymph node dissection. METHODS The inclusion criteria for the laparoscopic approach ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the patterns of lateral cervical metastasis and the incidence of level IIb lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Academic medicine. PATIENTS From March 1, 2000, to April 30, 2006, 46 consecutive patients (38 women and 8 men) with papillary thyroid carcinoma. INTERVENTIONS Patients underwent 55 mod...

The failure of adjuvant therapy to significantly improve the prognosis of patients undergoing esophago-gastrectomy for cancer may be because of poor patient selection. We sought prognostic factors that would identify those patients who could benefit from adjuvant therapy. Data on 15 possible prognostic factors were prospectively collected on 225 patients undergoing esophago-gastrectomy at a sin...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, often presenting with regional lymph node or bone metastasis and rarely with supradiaphragmatic lymph node involvement. Most metastatic cancers involving the cervical lymph nodes are from cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract. In this report, we describe two cases with cervical lymph node enlargement due to metastatic prostate cancer as the i...

OBJECTIVES The progressive ageing of the population is accompanied by an increasing incidence of cancer. Our objective was to compare mediastinal lymphadenectomy performed in the surgical treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients between ≥ 70 and <70. METHODS We performed a retrospective single-centre case-control study, including 80 patients ≥ 70 years of age, surgically treat...

Received December 21, 2006; accepted February 1, 2007. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to document the patterns of RLN spread by using MRI. METHODS The MR images of 294 patients with newly diagnosed NPC were reviewed retrospectively. Criteria for metastatic lymph nodes included: shortest axial diameter, nodal necrosis, extracapsular spread, and a contrast enhancing rim. RESULTS RLN involveme...

Benign mesothelial inclusions in pelvic lymph nodes may be mistaken for metastatic disease in the setting of pelvic malignancy. In this case-report a patient with Low-Risk prostate cancer (confirmed by biopsy and genomic testing) underwent radical prostatectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection. The initial pathological diagnosis was organ-confined Gleason 3 + 3 = 6 cancer with metastasis to a ...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND The objective of this retrospective study was to assess the diameter of metastatic lymph nodes in a population of women with apparently early stage endometrial cancer at laparotomy. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN Among 700 cases with endometrial cancer, 27 cases with disease clinically limited to the uterus in the laparotomy and found to have retroperitoneal node metastasis afte...

BACKGROUND Lymph node metastasis from differentiated thyroid carcinoma may occur outside of the basins at greatest risk of spread, such as the lateral retropharyngeal lymph nodes. The extensive surgery of traditional approaches to the retropharyngeal space are rarely justified in the treatment of metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer. Therefore, a less invasive surgical approach is advantage...