Re: Extracapsular tumor extension in cervical lymph nodes: Reconciling the literature and seer data

✍ Scribed by Wouter L. Lodder; Michiel W.M. van den Brekel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1043-3074
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.21921

✦ Synopsis

We would like to take the opportunity to comment on the recently published article by Brannon et al, 1 ''Extracapsular Tumor Extension in Cervical Lymph Nodes: Reconciling the Literature and SEER Data.'' In the literature, the risk of extracapsular tumor spread (ECS) increases with a larger nodal size; however, ECS can be also be detected in smaller nodes. As the authors discussed, the published literature represents findings from studies consisting only of small numbers of patients and retrospectively obtained data. Therefore, this study analyzed the relationship between nodal size and the frequency of ECS in a larger, more representative, prospectively collected database. For the collection of data, the authors consulted the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry. A total of 1684 patients eventually could be studied. As the article V V