title: [Clinical diagnosis of lymphogenic metastases of ovarian cancer].
abstract: Clinical and morphological data on the condition of lymph nodes were compared in 109 ovarian cancer patients. The involvement of lymph nodes detected by clinical methods was histologically confirmed in 90.6 +/- 3.6% of cases, the relevant figure for metastasis-free nodes being only 57.8 +/- 7.4%. The considerable discrepancy between the clinical and morphological data was due to the fact that the involved lymph nodes were either not enlarged or enlarged slightly in 64.9%, firm and elastic in 66.2%, easily or partially movable in 75.3% and were conglomerate-free in 57.9% of cases. To avoid diagnostic errors, a complex of clinical, lymphographic and morphological methods should be used for diagnosis of lymphogenic metastases.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008220:Lymphography; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010173:Palpation
vernacular_title: Klinicheskaia diagnostika limfogennykh metastazov raka iaichnikov.