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Results: Women in the SLN mapping group had lower total dissected pelvic nodes, lower incidence of para-aortic lymph node dissection, less intraoperative blood loss and lower complication rates, but a longer operation time compared to the traditional lymphadenectomy group. Para-aortic lymph node metastasis (hazard ratio = 7.60, p = 0.03) was the sole independent predictor for recurrence-free survival. In addition, the utilization of cytokeratin immunohistochemistry stain detected more lymph node metastases (adjusted odds ratio = 3.04, p = 0.03). Recurrence-free survival did not differ between SLN mapping and traditional lymphadenectomy groups (p = 0.24). Conclusions: Para-aortic lymph node metastasis is an important predictor of cancer recurrence. Women with negative hematoxylin and eosin stain should undergo cytokeratin immunohistochemistry stain to increase the detection rate of positive lymph node metastasis. Besides, the probabilities of recurrence seem to be similar between SLN mapping and traditional lymphadenectomy groups in women with clinically uterine-confined endometrial cancer.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers14081973","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,13]],"date-time":"2022-04-13T21:33:42Z","timestamp":1649885622000},"page":"1973","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Predictors for the Recurrence of Clinically Uterine-Confined Endometrial Cancer and the Role of Cytokeratin Immunohistochemistry Stain in the Era of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9450-2834","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wan-Hua","family":"Ting","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Industrial Management, Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shu-Wei","family":"Hsieh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomical Pathology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6299-1888","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hui-Hua","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming-Chow","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ho-Hsiung","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4381-9564","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sheng-Mou","family":"Hsiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 220, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan"},{"name":"Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"457.e1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajog.2008.01.010","article-title":"Is there a therapeutic impact to regional lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment of endometrial carcinoma?","volume":"198","author":"Iasonos","year":"2008","journal-title":"Am. 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