F-18 fluoro-d-glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in planning of surgery and sentinel lymph node screening in vulvar cancers

• Published in: Archives of gynecology and obstetrics Vol. 293; no. 6; pp. 1319 - 1324
• Main Authors: Dolanbay, Mehmet, Ozcelik, Bulent, Abdulrezzak, Ummuhan, Serin, Ibrahim Serdar, Kutuk, Mehmet Serdar, Uludag, Semih
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Biopsy; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - pathology; Dissection; Endocrinology; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Frozen Sections; Genital cancers; Glucose; Groin - pathology; Groin - surgery; Gynecologic Oncology; Gynecology; Human Genetics; Humans; Inguinal Canal - surgery; Lymph Node Excision - methods; Lymph Nodes - pathology; Lymph Nodes - surgery; Lymphatic Metastasis - pathology; Lymphatic system; Medical imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Precision Medicine; Prospective Studies; Radiopharmaceuticals; Sentinel Lymph Node - pathology; Sentinel Lymph Node - surgery; Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy - methods; Surgery; Tomography; Turkey; Vulvar Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Vulvar Neoplasms - pathology; Vulvar Neoplasms - surgery; FDG-PET/CT; Sentinel lymph node; Vulvar cancer

Purpose To determine the effectiveness of FDG-PET/CT in the assessment of inguinofemoral lymph node (IFLN) in patients with vulvar cancer by comparing FDG-PET/CT results, sentinel lymph node (SLN) screening with gamma probe, and the results of frozen section and definitive pathology in these lymph n...