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Article: Fascia-Sparing Lymphadenectomy Found Effective.
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- OB GYN News
- Article date:
- July 15, 2000
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Preserving the fascia lata while dissecting groin lymph nodes reduces morbidity without significantly increasing vulvar cancer recurrence rates, Dr. Jayanthi S. Lea and her associates reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Her retrospective study looked at 60 patients who had undergone radical vulvectomy and groin node dissection to treat vulvar cancers between 1990 and 1998. All superficial inguinal nodes and the deep femoral nodes on the anterior and medial surfaces of the femoral vein within the fossa ovalis were removed en bloc while sparing the fascia lata and the ...