The Clinical Value of Lymphangiography: Are the Nodes Surrounding the Obturator Nerve Visualized?
| Autor: | Ethelyn Jennings, George Baumgartner, Claude Merrin, Z. Wajsman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Urology Prostate medicine Carcinoma Humans Penile Neoplasms Pelvis business.industry Lymphography Prostatic Neoplasms Anatomy medicine.disease Dissection Lymphatic system medicine.anatomical_structure Urinary Bladder Neoplasms Evaluation Studies as Topic Lymphatic Metastasis Clinical value Obturator nerve Radiology Lymph Obturator Nerve business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Urology. 117:762-764 |
| ISSN: | 1527-3792 0022-5347 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)58618-8 |
| Popis: | Twenty-five patients subjected to pelvic node dissection for urologic malignancies underwent bilateral pedal lymphangiography preoperatively. Postoperatively, 50 samples of the nodes selectively removed from the regions surrounding the obturator nerve were radiographed. All 50 samples revealed the presence of radiopaque dye. The lymph nodes surrounding the obturator nerve represent the first point of lymphatic metastases in carcinoma of the prostate and the bladder. Their visualization by lymphangiography emphasizes the importance of such a diagnostic study for the correct clinical staging of these diseases. The lymphatic anatomy of the pelvis is reviewed and compared to the radiological findings in lymphangiography |
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