Results and complications of staging laparotomy in hodgkin's disease | Zendy

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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.

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