Pretherapeutic staging of locally advanced cervical cancer: Inframesenteric paraaortic lymphadenectomy accuracy to detect paraaortic metastases in comparison with infrarenal paraaortic lymphadenectomy

IM-PALND appears to be equally effective to assess paraaortic nodal involvement in LACC for both histological subtypes - glandular and squamous carcinomas - and to select patients for extended-field chemoradiation therapy.