[Surgery for carcinoma of the cervix: frozen section examination of the external iliac nodes (author's transl)].
Since 1970, the authros have carried out colpohysterectomy with external iliac node dissection for carcinoma of the cervix at stages 1 and 2. The nodes were subjected to frozen section histological examination. In the presence of signs of invasion, primary iliac block dissection is carried out. Two hundrend and seventy cases have been treated in this way, with only 7 cases of error in the frozen section diagnosis (2,5%). There was 1 false positive, 4 false negatives and 2 doubtful cases with a suspicion of invasion. It is therefore suggested that frozen section histological examination of the external iliac nodes is possible and reliable.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005629:Frozen Sections; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
Traitement chirurgical du cancer du col utérin, Examen histologique extemporané des ganglions iliaques externes.