Synonyms/Description

Lymphadenopathy

Etiology

Lymph nodes are common sites of metastatic disease in gynecologic tumors and are an important prognostic factor in these malignancies. For example, the 5-year survival for a patient with vulvar cancer and normal nodes is 90%, compared with a patient with nodal disease, whose 5-year survival rate is 50%.

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