Radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy for the treatment of invasive IB and IIA cervical cancer: review of 153 cases
Saleh Montalvo, T.; Reyna Hinojosa, R.; Colorado Munguia, S.; Saldaña Ibarra, P.
Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico 59: 177-180
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9041 PMID: 1937120 Document Number: 387258
One hundred and fifty three patients with carcinoma of the cervix, stages IB and IIA, were treated with radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy, during the period from October 1978 to December, 1989; 85.6% were at stages IB and 14.4% at IIA. The most frequent histological type was the epidermoid one in 91.5%. Average age was 48 years; 94 patients out of 107 (87.8%) were followed up during five years at least. Total survival at five years, was 75.7%; with positive lymphatic nodes, 50% and with negative nodes, 77.2%. In 17.6% of the cases post-operative radiotherapy was required. Late morbidity was most frequent as vesical dysfunction (17.6%); there were vesicovaginal fistulae (1.3%); and operative mortality was 0.6%). The present study confirms that this type of surgery is justified, as to survival and morbi-mortality, and it allows a histopathological evaluation that shows risk factors, as to recurrence.