title: The role of scalene lymph node biopsy in advanced carcinoma of the cervix uteri.
abstract: Considerable controversy exists in the role of scalene lymph node biopsy in the pretreatment assessment of patients with carcinoma of the cervix uteri. Scalene lymph node biopsy was carried out on ten patients having advanced carcinoma of the cervix uteri with documented para-aortic nodal involvement. Metastatic carcinoma was found in the scalene lymph nodes in five of ten patients. These preliminary findings suggest that excision of scalene lymph nodes should be carried out prior to the institution of therapy in all patients with carcinoma of the cervix uteri which is metastatic to the para-aortic lymph nodes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery