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Results and complications of staging laparotomy in hodgkin's disease
Author(s) -
Wobbes T.,
Lubbers E. J. C.,
De Pauw B. E.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930260212
Subject(s) - medicine , laparotomy , stage (stratigraphy) , disease , complication , surgery , radiology , general surgery , paleontology , biology
Between 1969 and 1983, 123 patients with Hodgkin's disease underwent a staging laparotomy. The stages of 34 (27%) patients were changed by laparatomy. Twenty‐nine patients (23%) were upstaged, five (4%) down‐staged. The most considerable change was found in stage III. The accuracy of preoperative lymphangiography was 85%. The postoperative complication rate was 15%. There were no operative deaths. The staging laparotomy for Hodgkin's disease is a reliable procedure, and allows less aggressive therapy in selective groups.