Pathological processing of sentinel lymph nodes in endometrial carcinoma - routine aspects of grossing, ultra-staging, and surgico-pathological parameters in a series of 833 lymph nodes.

Rau, Tilman T; Deppeler, Mona V; Christe, Lucine; Siegenthaler, Franziska; Imboden, Sara; Papadia, Andrea; Mueller, Michael D (2022). Pathological processing of sentinel lymph nodes in endometrial carcinoma - routine aspects of grossing, ultra-staging, and surgico-pathological parameters in a series of 833 lymph nodes. Virchows Archiv, 481(3), pp. 421-432. Springer 10.1007/s00428-022-03377-6

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Sentinel lymph nodes are widely accepted in the treatment of endometrial carcinoma. Whereas surgical aspects are well studied, the pathological work-up in terms of grossing, frozen section, and the so-called ultra-staging is still a matter of debate. This results in conflicting national or center-based recommendations. In a series of consecutive 833 sentinel lymph nodes from 206 patients in endometrial carcinomas, we compared three different grossing techniques and the use of frozen section in terms of anatomy, detection rates, and survival. In total, 42 macro-metastases, 6 micro-metastases, and 25 nodes with isolated tumor cells were found. Lymph nodes affected at least with micro-metastasis were about 0.5cm enlarged. Detection rates in lamellation technique increased with a step of 5.9% to 8.3% in comparison to bi-valved or complete embedding. The lamellation technique presented with a slight beneficial prognosis in pN0 subgroup (OS, p=0.05), which besides size effects might be attributed to trimming loss. In frozen section, this effect was less pronounced than expected (OS, p=0.56). Ultra-staging only revealed additional micro-metastases and isolated tumor cells. Exclusively, macro-metastases showed poor survival (p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, T-stage, subtype, and lympho-vascular invasion status outperformed this staging parameter significantly. Grossing of sentinel lymph nodes is the most essential step with evidence to prefer lamellation in 2 mm steps. Step sectioning should consider widely spaced protocols to exclude macro-metastases. Frozen sections might add value to the intra-operative assessment of endometrial carcinoma in selected cases. The excellent biological behavior of cases with isolated tumor cells might question the routine application of pan-cytokeratin as ultra-staging method.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Clinical Pathology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Gynaecology

UniBE Contributor:

Rau, Tilman, Deppeler, Mona Vera, Christe, Lucine Constance, Siegenthaler, Franziska Anna, Imboden, Sara, Papadia, Andrea, Mueller, Michael

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

0945-6317

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

25 Jul 2022 14:25

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:22

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s00428-022-03377-6

PubMed ID:

35854139

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Endometrial carcinoma Frozen section Sentinel lymph node Ultra-staging

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/171473

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/171473

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