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Endometrium: Oral Abstract: Preoperative and intraoperative assesment of myometrial invasion and histological grade in endometrial cancer: Role of MRI and frozen section
This article was originally published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow and was migrated to Scientific Scholar after the change of Publisher.
Abstract
Introduction:
The role of systematic lymphadenectomy in clinically early stage endometrial cancer is controversial. A number of factors can predict lymph node metastasis including myometrial invasion, tumor grade in endometrial cancers. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the accuracy of preoperative MRI and intraoperative frozen section in determining the depth of myometrial invasion, cervical involvement, tumor size and lymph nodal status. We also studied the accuracy of preoperative endometrial biopsy and intraoperative frozen section in determining the grade of the tumor.
Materials and Methods:
Medical records of 235 consecutive cases of clinically early stage endometrial cancer were reviewed retrospectively. A record of depth of myometrial invasion, tumor size, cervical involvement and presence of enlarged lymph nodes was made on a preoperative MRI. Similarly depth of myometrial invasion, tumor size, cervical involvement and grade of the tumor were recorded on an intraoperative frozen section. The grade of the tumor was also recorded on a preoperative endometrial biopsy. Standard statistical calculations were used.
Results:
The sensitivity and specificity of MRI for myometrial invasion for the first 160 cases were 81.3 and 75%, respectively while that for frozen section were 80 and 96.2%, respectively. For tumor grade the sensitivity and specificity of preoperative endometrial biopsy were 60 and 95.6%, respectively while that of frozen section were 53.8 and 97.6%, respectively. For cervical involvement the sensitivity of MRI and frozen section was 62.5 and 98.4%, respectively. Updated results of the entire cohort of 235 cases will be presented at the conference if selected.
Conclusion:
Although the sensitivity of both frozen section and MRI for predicting deep myometrial invasion was similar (80 vs 81.3%) but the specificity (96.2 vs 75%) and negative predictive value (92.7 vs 88.2%) of frozen section were superior to MRI. Both preoperative biopsy and intraoperative frozen section had low sensitivity (60 vs 53.8%) for detecting a high grade lesion.
