Feasability of retroperitoneal pelvic lymph node exploration in cervical carcinoma. Assessment of morbidity in 33 cases treated by combined radio-surgery or definitive radiotherapy
Background and purposes: Laparoscopic modalities by selective biopsies permit a better assessment of the pelvic lymph nodes status than imaging procedures in cervix carcinoma. They could enable the radiation oncologist to adapt the target volume of external irradiation, provided the feasibility of such procedures is good and the toxicity reduced as much as possible.