conclusions trachelectomy represents a valuable conservative surgical approach for stage invasive cervical cancer. case report a 30-years-old woman with squamous cell cervical cancer stage (1 a ii) diagnosed at september 2011 expressed a wish for fertility-sparing treatment. radical abdominal hysterectomy and pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy were performed which showed no evidence of lymp...

OBJECTIVE To complete a systematic review of the published literature comparing complications, postoperative recovery time, and costs following laparoscopy-assisted vaginal hysterectomy, total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), and vaginal hysterectomy. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE and several bibliographies, identifying all reports using the term "laparoscopy-assisted hysterectomy" published ...

The first abdominal radical hysterectomy has been performed by Ernst Wertheim, one of the most famous 19th century surgeons, and still remains the basis for many surgeons nowadays. The technique was then modified by Meigs in 1950s. Piver and colleagues have described five classes of surgery based on the estimated risk of cervical carcinoma involvement; moreover, a new classification has been re...