[Analysis of lymph node status and lymph node morphology in cervix cancer operated by the Wertheim-Meigs-Okabayashi...

We evaluated in the histologic labor, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Tübingen University 133 specimens of cervical carcinomas stages I and II operated on according to Wertheim-Meigs-Okabayashi. Topic of this analysis is lymph node status, concomitant alterations and lymphangiosis carcinomatosa. On the average 22.1 lymph nodes (1-58) have been removed. 12.8 per cent of cervical carcinomas had metastases, on the average 3 ones. 78.6 per cent of the metastases were localized in nondilymphatici interiliaci, 14.3 per cent in nodi iliaci communes. 5-year survival with metastases was 70.6 per cent, without 90.5 per cent. Over all a lymphangiosis carcinomatosa in 20.3 per cent was detectable. In 59.9 per cent of the lymph node metastases additionally a lymphangiosis carcinomatosa was present, on the contrary only 9.9 per cent of tumour-free ones. 5-year survival with lymphangiosis carcinomatosa was 70.4 per cent and 92.4 per cent without. Regressive changes, mostly as vacat fat, were observed in like the same percentage both in tumour positive and tumourfree lymph nodes.