Table 1.

Characteristics of patients with para-aortic metastasis

^aIn some cases, the whole node was not metastatic, so we specified the size of the metastasis inside the positive node.

^bPositive frozen section analysis and incomplete lymphadenectomy.

Abbreviations: AWD, alive with disease; DOD, died of disease; EC, epidermoid carcinoma; NED, no evidence of disease; PA, para-aortic; PET–CT, positron emission tomography–computed tomography.