Objective: To determine the number of lymph nodes obtained from radical
hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy (RHPL) and survival rates of the
early-stage cervical cancer patients with various numbers of removed lymph nodes
(RLNs) and metastatic lymph nodes (MLNs). Materials and methods:
407 patients with early-stage cervical cancers who underwent
RHPL were included in this study. We reviewed all medical records from January
2005–June 2020 and excluded the patients who had incomplete medical record, loss
of follow-up visits and received neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Results:
Three-hundred-and-fifty-four patients were analyzed. The median time of follow-up
was 44.3 months, the average number of RLNs was 23 (range 7–29) and 91.7% of
our cases had
