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The value of endosonography in preoperative staging of rectal cancer

✍ Scribed by G. Lindmark; A. Elvin; L. Påhlman; B. Glimelius


Publisher
Springer
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
487 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0179-1958

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✦ Synopsis


Sixty-three patients with mobile rectal cancer were examined preoperatively with endorectal ultrasonography (EUS). The depth of infiltration and the presence ofmesorectal lymph node metastases could be assessed in 53 patients. Doppler ultrasonography was performed in 16 cases with suspected lymph node enlargement in order to discriminate between lymph nodes and blood vessels. Tumour growth in the bowel wall was correctly estimated in 43 (81%) patients. The degree of spread was overestimated in five patients and underestimated in five. The evaluation of the mesorectal lymph node status was also accurate in 43 (81%) patients. Nine patients had one or several regional lymph node metastases, but the EUS revealed only some of the metastatic lymph nodes in each case. In the other 34, no lymph node metastases were found. In two patients the EUS was falsely positive since no lymph nodes could be demonstrated in the operative specimens. In eight patients the examination was falsely negative. EUS is considered to be an accurate method for preoperative assessment of tumour infiltration in the bowel wall as the risk of understaging was under 10%. Preoperative irradiation and surgery may be chosen based on the EUS-determined tumour extension into the rectal wall.

R~snm& 63 malades avec un cancer du rectum mobile ont 6t~ examin6s pr6op6ratoirement par ultrasonographie endorectale (USE). La profondeur de l'infiltration et la pr6sence de m@astases gang[ionnaires darts le mbsorecturn ont pu ~tre 6valu6s chez 53 malades. Un doppler par ultrasonographie a 6t6 effectu6 darts 16 cas avec une hypertrophie suspecte des ganglions lymphatiques afin de distinguer entre les ganglions et les vaisseaux sanguins. La p6n6tration tumorale darts la paroi intestinale, a 6t6 correctement estim6e chez 43 malades (81%). Le degr6 d'extension a 6t6 surestim6 chez 5 malades et sousestim6 chez 5 autres. L'6valuation de l'6tat des ganglions lymphatiques du m6sorectum 6tait aussi correcte chez 43 malades (81%). 9 malades avaient une ou plusieurs m6tastases des ganglions r6gionaux, mais l'ultrasonographie ne r~vblait que quelques uns des ganglions mbtastatiques dans chaque cas. Chez les 34 autres patients aucune m6tastase ganglionnaire n'a 6t6 trouv6e. Chez 2 malades I'USE 6tait faussement positive puisque aucun ganglion n'a pu atre d6montr6 sur la pi6ce op6ratoire. Chez 8 malades, l'examen 6tait faussement n6gatif. L'ultrasonographie endorectale est consid6r6e comme 6tant une m6thode sfire pour l'appr6ciation pr6-op6ratoire de l'infiltration tumorale dans l'intestin puisque le risque de sousestimation est au dessous de 10%. L'irradiation pr6-op6ratoire et la chirurgie peuvent atre choisies sur la base de l'extension tumorale dans la paroi rectale d6termin6e par l'ultrasonographie endorectale.


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