Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Tracer for Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Endometrial Cancer.

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection has been widely investigated in recent years as a part of the surgical staging of women with endometrial cancer (EC), gradually overtaking lymphadenectomy (LND) in this respect. In this study, thirty EC patients, assumed as stage I, were investigated using superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) as a tracer for SLN detection followed by LND. The endpoints of this research were the proportion of successful SLN detection, the average number of SLNs per patient, the percentage of bilaterally detected SLNs, and the proportion of metastatic SLNs.

Superparamagnetic iron oxide: a novel tracer for sentinel lymph node detection in vulvar cancer.

Objectives: Superparamagnetic techniques for sentinel lymph node (SLNs) biopsy in breast cancer is well recognized but remains novel in the literature in relation to early stage vulvar cancer. The aim of this study was to compare and validate SLN detection using a superparamagnetic iron oxide tracer and a magnetometer probe compared with the standard procedure with a radioisotope (Tc-technetium 99) and a gamma probe, in patients with vulvar cancer.

Methods: Patients were included in the study with squamous vulvar tumors less than 4 cm in diameter and without suspicious groin lymph nodes on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging.

Complication of radiation therapy among patients with positive S. aureus culture from genital tract.

Aim: The main goal of this investigation was to evaluate the influence of positive Staphylococcus aureus culture from the genital tract on patients receiving radiation therapy, suffering from carcinoma of the uterus. The other aim was to observe radiation therapy complications.

Background: Radiation therapy of patients suffering from cervical cancer can be connected with inflammation of the genitourinary tract.