Diagnostic accuracy of frozen section and patterns of nodal spread in high grade endometrial cancer: A secondary outcome of the SENTOR prospective cohort study.

The study aimed to define the accuracy of intraoperative frozen section (FS) for the detection of metastases in sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and describe the pattern of lymph node (LN) spread and relation to molecular classifiers in patients with high-grade endometrial cancer (EC). We performed a secondary outcome of clinicopathologic data from the Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy versus Lymphadenectomy for Intermediate- and High-Grade Endometrial Cancer Staging (SENTOR) prospective cohort study evaluating SLNB in patients with clinical stage I high-grade EC (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01886066). The primary outcome was the sensitivity of FS of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) specimen, compared to a standardized ultrastaging protocol. Secondary outcomes included the pattern and characteristics of LN spread. There were 126 patients with high-grade EC with a median age of 66 years (range:44-86) and a median Body Mass Index (BMI) of 26.9 kg/m Intraoperative FS of SLNs in high-grade EC patients has poor sensitivity. Since isolated para-aortic metastases are rare, para-aortic lymphadenectomy may be omitted in patients in which SLNs were successfully mapped to the pelvis.

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