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Clinical Trial
. 2005 Oct;32(10):1210-6.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-005-1834-8. Epub 2005 May 21.

Usefulness of sentinel lymph node detection in early stages of cervical cancer

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Clinical Trial

Usefulness of sentinel lymph node detection in early stages of cervical cancer

I Roca et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2005 Oct.

Abstract

Purpose: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping in combination with surgical biopsy is an emerging technique for use in the early stages of cervical cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the technique in a series of 40 consecutive women with early stage cervical cancer.

Methods: Forty patients with early stage cervical cancer [FIGO stage IA2 (2), IB1 (34), IB2 (1) or IIA (3)] were referred for radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy. Patients were submitted to preoperative lymphoscintigraphy (four 99mTc-nanocolloid injections around the tumour) and intraoperative SLN detection. Hand-held or laparoscopic gamma probes were used to locate SLNs during surgery.

Results: The mean number of SLNs was 2.5 per patient (interiliac 49%, external iliac 19%). Of the total of 99 SLNs, six, in four women, showed metastases (all 68 non-SLNs removed were negative). In the other 36 patients, all the removed lymph nodes (sentinel and non-sentinel) were negative (0% false negative rate). During the follow-up (median 25 months), only two patients presented distant metastases: one died 6 months after surgery (two of three SLNs positive, both hot and blue), while the second patient is alive 4 years after surgery (lung metastasis, no isotope drainage, negative blue SLN). The survival rate was 95% and disease-free survival, 97%.

Conclusion: SLN surgical biopsy based on lymphoscintigraphy and blue dye is a feasible and useful technique to avoid lymph node dissection in the early stages of cervical cancer. It has a high negative predictive value, can be incorporated into clinical routine (laparoscopy or open surgery) and is close to achieving validation in this setting.

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