| pubmed-article:7223169 | pubmed:abstractText | Lymphographic radicality may be determined by presurgical and postsurgical lymphography with measurement of radicality of iliacal lymphonodectomy. Lymphographically uncontrasted lymph nodes, as recordable from Wertheim's radical operation, accounted for 20 per cent in a surgical specimen. Radicality of lymph node counts can be calculated, for all practical purposes, by the following formula: RZ = Number of presurgical lymph nodes - posts, nodes.100 Number of presurgical lymph nodes Radicality, which can be calculated by surface and volume measurements of extirpated lymph nodes, is about 20 per cent in excess of the value obtained by counting. The latter approach was found to be suitable for research, in particular. Determination of radicality of lymphonodectomy is a practically useful aid in deciding post-surgical irradiation of patients who have undergone radical surgery for carcinoma of the cervix. | lld:pubmed |
