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RADICAL SURGERY IN STAGE I CARCINOMA OF THE CORPUS UTERI
Author(s) -
Iversen T.,
Holter J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01768.x
Subject(s) - corpus uteri , stage (stratigraphy) , medicine , lymph , lymph node , radical hysterectomy , lymphadenectomy , carcinoma , radical surgery , adenocarcinoma , hysterectomy , surgery , urology , cancer , pathology , cervix , cervical cancer , biology , paleontology
Summary Thirty‐four patients with stage I adenocarcinoma of the corpus uteri were selected for radical hysterectomy combined with bilateral transperitoneal pelvic lymphadenectomy and followed 8 to 15 years. Metastases to the pelvic lymph nodes were diagnosed in 18%. Invasion of tumour in lymph or blood vessels was found in 17 patients, and five of these patients had lymph node metastases whereas this was true in only one out of 17 patients without demonstrable vessel invasion. The 5‐year crude survival was 80% with 15% urinary tract complications.