Abstract
A case of a 70-year-old patient with advanced local vulvar cancer is presented. Treatment with neo-adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy for two courses was administered and two weeks after completion of treatment the patient underwent wide local excision with bilateral inguino-femoral lymph node dissection through three separate incisions. Two methods for the evaluation of sentinel nodes-lymphoscintigraphy and intraoperative gamma hand-held probe and blue dye injection, did not detect any sentinel node on either side. Groin-node dissection revealed 23 negative nodes. It is our hypothesis that the non-visualization of sentinel nodes in this patient was due to post-irradiation damage to the lymph channels.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 433-434 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Lymphoscintigraphy
- Sentinel node
- Vulvar cancer
