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...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic importance of the metastatic lymph node ratio for stage III colon cancer patients and to find a cut-off value at which the overall survival and disease-free survival change. MATERIAL/METHODS Patients with pathological stage III colon cancer were retrospectively evaluated for: age; preoperative values of Crp, Cea, Ca 19-9, and Afp...

A relation between the number of resected lymph node and the number of metastatic lymph nodes in gastric cancer is the ratio of lymph nodes demonstrating that pN category was influenced by the extension of the lymphadenectomy. The necessity of accurate lymph node staging has been stated vital while evaluating different treatment consequences. This study evaluates use of ratio of lymph nodes as ...

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...

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...