Clinical significance of lympho vascular space involvement and lymph node micrometastases in early-stage cervical cancer: A retrospective case-control surgico-pathological study

LNmM is an important risk factor of tumor recurrence in patients with early cervical cancer with no apparent lymph node metastases. LNmM seems to occur only in LVSI positive tumors. These data may lead to improve management of early-stage cervical cancer to reduce the risk of recurrence in those cases.