Availability of tissue rinse liquid-based cytology for the rapid diagnosis of sentinel lymph node metastasis and improved bilateral detection by photodynamic eye camera.

Objective: On sentinel lymph node navigation surgery for early invasive cervical cancers, to gain high sensitivity and specificity, the sentinel nodes should be detected bilaterally and pathological diagnosis should be sensitive to detect micrometastasis. To improve these problems, we tried tissue rinse liquid-based cytology and the photodynamic eye.

Methods: From 2005 to 2013, 102 patients with Stage Ib1 uterine cervical cancer were subjected to sentinel lymph node navigation surgery with Technetium-99 m colloid and blue dye.

Re-consideration of lymphadenectomy for stage Ib1 cervical cancer.

Aim: Because of less frequent lymph node metastasis and parametrial involvement, patients with stage Ib1 cervical cancer may benefit from a curtailment of surgery. We retrospectively investigated the distribution of lymph node metastasis in stage Ib1 patients. After comparing the data with that of higher stages and sentinel lymph node navigation (SLNN), the appropriate extent of lymphadenectomy (LA) in stage Ib1 disease was newly suggested.

Previous conization on patient eligibility of sentinel lymph node detection for early invasive cervical cancer.

Objective: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection has been accepted as a common strategy to preserve the quality of life of the patients with gynecologic cancers. However, the feasibility of SLN detection after conization is not yet clarified. Accuracy of SLN after conization was evaluated.

Preoperative serum SCC, CA125, and CA19-9 levels and lymph node status in squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix.

Background: We wanted to investigate the clinical usefulness of determining the pretreatment levels of multiple serum tumor markers in predicting lymph node status and the prognosis for patients with cervical carcinoma.

Methods: The preoperative serum levels of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC), cancer antigens CA125 and CA19-9 were assayed simultaneously in 103 patients with stages IB to IIB cervical SCC undergoing radical hysterectomy. The cut-off values of SCC, CA125, and CA19-9 in this study were 1.