Lymph Node Dissection in Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia

Lymph node dissection in atypical endometrial hyperplasia

OBJECTIVE The rate of concomitant endometrial carcinoma in patients with atypical endometrial hyperplasia is high. We aimed to investigate the role of lymphadenectomy in deciding adjuvant treatment in patients with concomitant atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS Women with atypical endometrial hyperplasia were enrolled in this retrospective study. ...

Lymph Node Dissection

Gastric cancer remains as one of the leading causes of death worldwide (Yoshida et al., 2004). Middle third and distal cancers tend to decline worldwide. However, in the western populations proximal gastric cancers tend to increase even though the incidence of those cancers stays the same in Japan. Today, the incidence of early gastric cancer has reached above 50% in Japan while in the west two...

VATS lymph node dissection.

Dissection axillary lymph node count in patient with breast cancer followed by neoadjuvant therapy

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second cause of death in women. It is essential to have the highest level of confidence in axillary staging assessment. Many surgeons and pathologists believe that fewer lymph nodes are present in axillary dissection specimens of women treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to compare the lym...

Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia (Castleman).

Six personally observed cases of this lesion are reported and the literature is reviewed. One hundred and thirty-four cases have been reported to date. The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%). Ninety per cent of cases are symptomless or have only the pressure symptoms, 10% have systemic signs, namely, fever, raised ...