The impact of frailty on treatment strategies and survival outcomes of vulvar cancer patients: a systematic review

Vasilios Pergialiotis, Maria Fanaki, Antonia Varthaliti, Vasilios Lygizos, Dimitrios Haidopoulos, Nikolaos Thomakos

Background: Vulvar cancer is an uncommon gynecologic malignancy that is usually manifested in older ages which have several comorbidities. Frail patients pose a significant subgroup in gynecologic oncology as frailty may affect treatment plans and result in significant reduction of survival outcomes. In the present systematic review we summarize current evidence focusing on the impact of frailty in vulvar cancer patients …

Diagnostic efficacy of ultrasound in the detection of inguinofemoral metastases

Vasilios Pergialiotis, Sofoklis Stavros, Ioannis Rodolakis, Anastasios Potiris, Periklis Papanagopoulos, Georgios Daskalakis, Aikaterini Domali

Ultrasonographic assessment of inguinofemoral lymph nodes has been proposed as an alternative to standard imaging techniques since the 2000s. Since then, several researchers indicated its high diagnostic accuracy, denoting that its limitations seem to be comparable to those of magnetic resonance …

The sentinel lymph node procedure in gynecologic oncology: Review of the literature

Kalogiannidis I, Xiromeritis P, Prapas Y, Prapas N

Lymphadenectomy contributes to the optimal staging and treatment of patients with gynecologic cancer. However, the former approach is not without adverse outcomes. The aim of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure, which is the first node involved by the tumor, is to detect the group of patients with positive SLN, who will benefit from the lymphadenectomy. On the other hand …

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