Open AccessOvarian Metastasis from Squamocellular Cervical Cancer, Stages IB and IIA
Author(s) -
Bouma Joke,
Hollema Harry
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016348909021027
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , endocervix , ovarian cancer , cervical cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , lymph node metastasis , cancer , oncology , gynecology , cervix , paleontology , biology
Ovarian metastasis from early stage squamous cervical cancer is rare. In a series of 393 surgically treated patients with squarnous cervical cancer, stages IB and HA, 2 had unsuspected ovarian metastasis. These cases are reported. In younger patients, ovarian extirpation instead of conservation of the ovaries must only be considered in histologically unfavorable tumors extending high up in the endocervix, especially on suspicion of lymph node metastasis.