Port-site and liver metastases after laparoscopic pelvic and para-aortic lymph node dissection for surgical staging of locally advanced cervical cancer

Surgical versus radiographic determinati

Surgical versus radiographic determination of para-aortic lymph node metastases before chemoradiation for locally advanced cervical carcinoma : A Gynecologic Oncology Group study

✍ Michael A. Gold; Chunqiao Tian; Charles W. Whitney; Peter G. Rose; Rachelle Lanc 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Patients with cervical cancer who had negative para‐aortic lymph nodes (PALNs) identified by pretreatment surgical staging were compared with patients who had only radiographic exclusion of PALN metastases before they received treatment with pelvic radiation and brachythe