PD5-3-1: Role of intraoperative ultrasound for mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer surgery

Abstract

Conclusions: This meta-analysis shows a modest but significant improvement in overall survival and local failures at the expense of a clearly increased severe esophagitis. Difficulties of increased treatment frequency and the continuous therapy over weekends make these strategies hard to adopt. On the other hand, due to the heterogeneity of altered fractionation modalities among the trials included, our results should be considered with caution and must be interpreted as an hypothesis generator. TRIAL n HFRT type Chemotherapy Median OS p Ball 204 60 Gy in 3 wks Weekly CBDCA 14.7 vs 15.4 ns Saunders (CHART)

Intraoperative ultrasonography for the identification of thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal cancer

“…Some studies reported that IU was a valuable diagnostic tool for the lymph nodes in several malignancies. In patients with non‐small cell lung cancer, IU was used to guide the dissection of mediastinal lymph nodes with a higher number of nodal stations yielded, and skip nodal metastasis were found in 24% of patients without N1 nodal involvement. Ryo reported that IU was a highly sensitive technique for diagnosing lymph nodes metastases in patients with ovarian and uterine corpus malignancy.…”