喉癌喉咽癌哨位淋巴结的临床初步研究

目的 探讨喉癌喉咽癌哨位淋巴结的检测及其对颈淋巴结转移的预测价值。方法 用手术中注射蓝染料的方法，对29例颈淋巴结NO的喉癌喉咽癌患者进行了哨位淋巴结的临床研究。手术中取蓝染的哨位淋巴结作快速冰冻病理检查，并与HE染色病理检查结果及颈清扫切除的淋巴结病理检查对照，观察哨位淋巴结转移对颈淋巴结转移癌的预测值。结果 29例中28例成功地显示了哨位淋巴结，成功率达96．6％。每例发现蓝染的哨位淋巴结1－4个，平均每例则检出2．5个。有3例患者的哨位淋巴结检测有肿瘤转移，HE染色病理检查及颈清扫切除的淋巴结病理检查均证实颈淋巴结转移。25例哨位淋巴结冰冻病理检查阴性患者，颈淋巴结清扫标本亦未查见淋巴结转移。哨位淋巴结对颈淋巴结转移的阳性正确率和阴性预测率为100％。结论 哨痊淋巴结检测对喉咽癌的淋巴结转移有重要的预测价值。

Clinical study of the sentinel lymph node of patients with laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinomas]

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the methods of detecting the sentinel lymph node of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinomas and its predictive value in the cervical metastasis of the carcinoma. METHODS: In 29 patients who suffered from laryngeal or hypopharyngeal carcinoma with NO neck, the patent blue was injected into the surrounding tissue of the tumor during the operation to identify the sentinel lymph nodes. The sentinel lymph nodes were dyed blue. The frozen histopathology was done during the operation, the lymph nodes at the ipsilateral side of the neck were dissected completely, and the routine histopathology was done as the gold standard to study the predictive value of the sentinel lymph node in the metastasis of the cervical node. RESULTS: Of 29 patients, 28 patients' sentinel lymph nodes were detected successfully during operation. There was an average of 2.5 lymph nodes per side per patient. Most of the sentinel lymph nodes were in the level II and level III regions of the ipsilateral side of the neck, and there were bilateral sentinel nodes in patients suffered from superglottic carcinoma. Three patients' sentinel lymph nodes were found to be positive in the frozen inspection, and the routine histopathology confirmed the result. The micrometastasis rate was 10.7% (3/28). There were no metastatic lymph nodes found in patients who were negative for the sentinel lymph nodes during the operative frozen histopathology. The predicted value of the sentinel lymph nodes to the cervical lymph node metastasis was 100 per cent. CONCLUSION: There is a very important predicted value of sentinel lymph nodes in the cervical metastasis of patients suffered from laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinomas. It could reduce the neck dissection in patients with laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinomas.