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Lymph node reactivity and microvessel density in neck metastases of unknown primary squamous cell carcinoma
Ali Amar1, Allan Fernando Giovanini, Marilene Paladino Rosas
1Hospital Heliópolis, Positivo University Center, Head and Neck Department, Paulista School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background:
Neoangiogenesis and the immune response are important mechanisms in metastasis development.
Aim:
to evaluate lymph node reactivity and microvessel density in neck metastasis of occult primary squamous cell carcinoma considering their histological and clinical variables.
Study Design:
retrospesctive case-series.
Method:
19 patients with neck metastasis of occult primary squamous cell carcinoma who underwent neck dissection between 1983 and 2000 were selected. The lymph nodes were reevaluated on the type of reactivity in both the cortical and paracortical areas, and the metastasis were assessed as to grade, desmoplasia, necrosis and microvessel density (CD34). The relationship between histological and clinical variables was evaluated.
Results:
the median microvessel density was 91 vessels/mm2, varying from 28 to 145. Paracortical hyperplasia was more common in patients below 55 years of age (90%x44%, p=0.05), but there was no relationship between reactivity patterns and microvessel density with prognosis. The disease-free survival was 52% in 3 years, being similar in both groups, with higher or lower microvessel densities.
Conclusion:
microvessel density in neck metastasis of occult primary squamous cell carcinoma had a great individual variability. It wasnt possible to establish the relationship between microvessel density and the clinical or histological variables studied.
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