extracapsular extension

The spread of a tumor outside the organ in which it arose, specifically, outside the tissue that separates the organ from neighboring anatomical structures.

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radical prostatectomy alone in prostate cancer patients with positive margins or extracapsular extension. European Urology, 30th July, 2019.

University of Helsinki: Adjuvant radiotherapy may be beneficial in treating locally advanced prostate cancer

RT and CT should be added in high grade lymphomas which display extracapsular extension (5).

Approach to primary thyroid lymphoma: case series

Several studies have shown that extracapsular extension is an important unfavorable prognostic factor in many types of cancer, including breast cancer (1, 6, 7, 10, 11).

Impact of Number of Positive Lymph Nodes and Lymph Node Ratio on Survival of Women with Node-Positive Breast Cancer

Extracapsular extension is a poor predictor of disease recurrence in surgically treated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Data Set for the Reporting of Nodal Excisions and Neck Dissection Specimens for Head and Neck Tumors: Explanations and Recommendations of the Guidelines From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting

Additionally, there was no significant difference between the 2 groups for parameters like BCR, Gleason score, surgical margin positivity, or extracapsular extension (9).

Impact of Delay from Biopsy to Surgery on the Rate of Adverse Pathologic and Oncologic Outcomes for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

Final histopathologic findings were consistent with classic PTC American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage T2N1bMx, including tumor nodule measuring 3.7X2.5X2.2 cm in size without extracapsular extension, one positive lymph node in the paratracheal right neck region VI and two positive lymph nodes in the dissected region IV of the right side of the neck (infiltrated with atypical epithelial cells of light cores with intranuclear inclusions and overlapping).

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA IODINE-131 AVID METASTASIS TO THE ADRENAL GLAND/NEOBICNO MJESTO PRESADNICE PAPILARNOG KARCINOMA STITNJACE U NADBUBREZNU ZLIJEZDU: PRIKAZ SLUCAJA

Forty-one percent of the patients with extracapsular extension had a PSA <0.2 ng/ml before RT.

Functional and oncological outcomes of salvage external beam radiotherapy following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in a Canadian cohort

Ability of preoperative 3.0-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging to predict the absence of side-specific extracapsular extension of prostate cancer.

Role of multi-parametric (mp) MRI in prostate cancer

Criteria for metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy include (1) MID [greater than or equal to] 10mm for individual LNs; (2) borderline MID of 8-10mm for three or more contiguous LNs; (3) nodes of any size with central necrosis or extracapsular extension (ECE) [11-13].

Quantitative Metastatic Lymph Node Regions on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Are Superior to AJCC N Classification for the Prognosis of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

SIGBIC with Extracapsular Extension. SIGBIC with extracapsular extension is related to fibrous capsule invasion.

Silicone-Induced Granuloma of Breast Implant Capsule (SIGBIC): Histopathology and Radiological Correlation

However, only a few studies have kept watch on preoperative evaluation of capsular invasion (CI) or extracapsular extension (ECE) and cervical lymph node metastasis using preoperative ultrasonography.

Using Ultrasonography to Evaluate the Relationship between Capsular Invasion or Extracapsular Extension and Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas

The risk of regional recurrence is higher in patients with lymph node metastases, especially in those with more than 10 involved nodes and extracapsular extension [34].

PDE5 Overexpression in Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinomas Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis