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Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer
BACKGROUD: The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury has increased due to RLN lymph node dissection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative ultrasonography (IU) to detect RLN nodal metastases in esophageal cancer patients. METHODS: Sixty patients with esoph...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6045849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30005630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4643-8 |
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author | Wang, Jianwei Liu, Min Shen, Jingxian Ouyang, Haichao Xie, Xiuying Lin, Ting Li, Anhua Yang, Hong |
author_facet | Wang, Jianwei Liu, Min Shen, Jingxian Ouyang, Haichao Xie, Xiuying Lin, Ting Li, Anhua Yang, Hong |
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description | BACKGROUD: The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury has increased due to RLN lymph node dissection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative ultrasonography (IU) to detect RLN nodal metastases in esophageal cancer patients. METHODS: Sixty patients with esophageal cancer underwent IU, computed tomography (CT), and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) to assess for RLN nodal metastasis. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) were compared. RESULTS: The sensitivities of IU, CT, and EUS in diagnosing right RLN nodal metastases were 71.4, 14.3, and 30.0%, respectively, and a significant difference among these three examinations was observed (χ2 = 10.077, P = .006). The specificities of IU, CT, and EUS for diagnosing right RLN nodal metastasis were 67.4, 97.8, and 95.0%, respectively, and a significant difference was observed (χ2 = 21.725, P < .001). No significant differences in either PPV or NPV were observed when diagnosing right RLN nodal metastases. For diagnosis of left RLN lymph nodal metastases, the sensitivities of IU, CT, and EUS were 91.7, 16.7, and 40.0% respectively. There was a significant difference among these diagnostic sensitivities (χ2 = 14.067, P = .001). The specificities of IU, CT, and EUS for diagnosis of left RLN nodal metastases were 79.2, 100, and 82.5%, respectively and a significant difference was observed (χ2 = 10.819, P = .004). No significant differences were observed in PPV or NPV for these examinations when diagnosing left RLN nodal metastases. CONCLUSION: Intraoperative ultrasonography showed superior sensitivity compared with preoperative CT or EUS in detecting RLN lymph node metastasis in patients with thoracic esophageal cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-60458492018-07-16 Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer Wang, Jianwei Liu, Min Shen, Jingxian Ouyang, Haichao Xie, Xiuying Lin, Ting Li, Anhua Yang, Hong BMC Cancer Research Article BACKGROUD: The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury has increased due to RLN lymph node dissection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative ultrasonography (IU) to detect RLN nodal metastases in esophageal cancer patients. METHODS: Sixty patients with esophageal cancer underwent IU, computed tomography (CT), and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) to assess for RLN nodal metastasis. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) were compared. RESULTS: The sensitivities of IU, CT, and EUS in diagnosing right RLN nodal metastases were 71.4, 14.3, and 30.0%, respectively, and a significant difference among these three examinations was observed (χ2 = 10.077, P = .006). The specificities of IU, CT, and EUS for diagnosing right RLN nodal metastasis were 67.4, 97.8, and 95.0%, respectively, and a significant difference was observed (χ2 = 21.725, P < .001). No significant differences in either PPV or NPV were observed when diagnosing right RLN nodal metastases. For diagnosis of left RLN lymph nodal metastases, the sensitivities of IU, CT, and EUS were 91.7, 16.7, and 40.0% respectively. There was a significant difference among these diagnostic sensitivities (χ2 = 14.067, P = .001). The specificities of IU, CT, and EUS for diagnosis of left RLN nodal metastases were 79.2, 100, and 82.5%, respectively and a significant difference was observed (χ2 = 10.819, P = .004). No significant differences were observed in PPV or NPV for these examinations when diagnosing left RLN nodal metastases. CONCLUSION: Intraoperative ultrasonography showed superior sensitivity compared with preoperative CT or EUS in detecting RLN lymph node metastasis in patients with thoracic esophageal cancer. BioMed Central 2018-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6045849/ /pubmed/30005630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4643-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Jianwei Liu, Min Shen, Jingxian Ouyang, Haichao Xie, Xiuying Lin, Ting Li, Anhua Yang, Hong Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title | Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title_full | Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title_fullStr | Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title_short | Diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
title_sort | diagnostic value of intraoperative ultrasonography in assessing thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6045849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30005630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4643-8 |
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