Aim Accurate clinical staging of cervical lymph nodes is essential for therapy planning in HNSCC patients, particularly cases non-surgical treatment without pathological staging. The aim this study was to evaluate the accuracy ultrasound elastography (UE) compared B-mode (US), CT, MRI and PET-MRI node patients.

BACKGROUND To investigate the relationship between paraglottic space (PGS) invasion and lymph node metastasis in patients undergoing supracricoid partial laryngectomy. METHODS The study included 98 subjects with squamous cell carcinoma of the glottis. RESULTS The PGS invasion rate was 60.2% (59/98), and a significant correlation was found between PGS invasion and cervical lymph node metasta...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Intraoral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the common tobacco related cancers affecting Indian population. These tumours are slow growing, endophytic and are mostly well differentiated. Cervical lymph node is the common site of metastasis of these tumours. In most of the patients cervical lymph node metastasis rather than the primary tumour, affects prognosis. H...

Cases of skeletal muscle metastasis of esophageal carcinoma are very rare, with few reports of long-term survival. We report a case of long-term survival after surgical resection of skeletal muscle metastasis. A 56-year-old man with advanced esophageal cancer and early gastric cancer underwent thoracoscopic esophagectomy, 2-field lymph node dissection, partial gastrectomy and gastric tube recon...

conclusion gray scale sonography in combination with doppler sonography could be a trustworthy technique in differentiating metastatic lymph nodes from reactive ones. although, circulation pattern had a higher diagnostic accuracy in the present study, combination of sonographic characteristics could be more beneficial in differentiating metastatic cervical nodes from reactive ones. results the ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of thymidylate synthase (TYMS) in the primary foci and metastatic lymph nodes of low-grade glioma, and to analyze the function of TYMS in the lymph node metastases from low-grade glioma. The study included 93 cases of surgically resected and pathologically confirmed low‐grade glioma, form patients treated at Huaihe Hospital of Henan...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the value of sentinel lymph node biopsy in diagnosis of cervical metastasis in patients with early oral squamous cell carcinoma. METHODS Cochrane library, evidence-based medicine (EBM), PubMed, China national knowledge internet (CNKI) were searched for 2001 - 2011 literatures on sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma as early diagnosis o...

Chylous ascites is an uncommon postoperative complication of gynecological surgery. We report a case of chylous ascites following a robotic lymph node dissection for a cervical carcinoma. A 38-year-old woman with IB2 cervical adenocarcinoma with a palpable 3 cm left external iliac lymph node was taken to the operating room for robotic-assisted laparoscopic pelvic and para-aortic lymph node diss...

The aim of this article was to evaluate the expression of E-cadherin and CD44 adhesion molecule in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) since inappropriate expression of adhesion molecules raises the metastatic ability of the tumor cells. Biopsy specimens from 92 patients with tongue SCC were examined for the expression of E-cadherin and CD44 by immunohistochemistry. The relationship of im...

OBJECTIVE To describe a clinical experience with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) of head and neck nodal basins for clinical stage I melanomas draining to these areas. DESIGN Consecutive clinical case series with a mean follow-up of 10.7 months. SETTING University tertiary care referral medical center. PATIENTS Seventy patients with clinical stage I cutaneous melanoma who underwent SLNB ...