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Prognostic significance of positive peritoneal cytology in endometrial carcinoma
J L Mazurka1, G V Krepart, R J Lotocki
1Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
A retrospective review of 280 patients with endometrial carcinoma who had peritoneal cytologic examination done at the time of laparotomy was undertaken. A positive cytologic finding was the only manifestation of extrauterine disease in 16 patients (6%). Four (25%) of these patients had a recurrence. Only 13 (5%) of 237 patients with negative cytologic findings had a recurrence. Positive peritoneal cytology is a marker for potential recurrence.