Sarcoma botryoides (embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma) rarely arises in the uterine cervix. We report a case of a 14-year-old female with sarcoma botryoides who presented with prolonged vaginal bleeding and cervical polyp. The biopsy specimen confirmed sarcoma botryoides. The patient underwent radical surgery of the tumor and hysterectomy without adjuvant chemotherapy. The sister of the patient had di...

Type III radical hysterectomy reported in 1974 by Piver, Rutledge, and Smith is considered worldwide by many as the standard surgical therapy for invasive cervical carcinoma stage IB and IIA. With the increasing number of robotic surgeries being performed for early stage cervical cancer worldwide, the purpose of the paper is to present our personal perspective of the 21st century role of Piver-...

Radical hysterectomy, the complete removal of a woman's uterus, is usually performed via an abdominal incision that requires a 3-5 day hospital stay and a 6-8 week recovery period. Now, in a handful of hospitals around the world, new robotic technology allows doctors to perform this procedure through small incisions that require a recovery time of only one night in the hospital and a significan...

Two hundred and forty-one patients were treated with radical hysterectomy at our institution between 1949 and December, 1978. The corrected 5-year survival rate for all patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix was 73%. Seventeen percent of patients with occult invasive carcinoma had positive lymph nodes at the time of operation. The corrected 5-year survival rate for patients with St...

Forty-four radical hysterectomy operations were performed between 1981 and 1986 for stage 1 cervical carcinoma. The five year survival rate, (actuarial) was 84%. All deaths were directly attributable to disease recurrence. Five year mortality was higher in those under age 45 years, and who had more than two pregnancies. Histology and node status did not show significant correlation with outcome...

to occur in up to 85% of patients [1] treated with radical hysterec tomy. Urinary symptoms include stress incontinence, sensory loss, bladder voiding dysfunction as hypotonic and hypertonic detrusor function [1]. These symptoms may affect the quality of life of patients surviving cervical cancer. Voiding disorders have been related to the damage of the hypogastric nerve and of the inferior hypo...

•Compartment syndrome is a rare complication of prolonged lithotomy position.•We report a case of compartment syndrome complicating radical hysterectomy.•Prompt diagnosis is crucial to reduce morbidity from compartment syndrome.•Awareness of this complication allows surgeons to address modifiable risk factors.

ObjectiveA meta-analysis was performed to compare survival outcomes including disease-free (DFS) between laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) and abdominal (ARH) in patients with cervical cancer.Data SourcesWe searched PubMed, EMBASE, Google scholar, the Cochrane library for studies published December 2004 May 2020. Manual searches of related articles relevant bibliographies were also perfor...

Objective: To evaluate the 12-year trend in the number of radical hysterectomies performed for cervical cancer in the US, and the potential impact of this trend on gynecologic oncology fellow surgical training. Methods: We queried the SEER database 13 registries to determine the number of radical hysterectomies performed each year in women with stage IA2 to IIA cervical cancer from 1998 to 2010...

Laparoscopically assisted vaginal radical vaginal hysterectomy (LAVRH), a minimally invasive technique that seems to be an attractive alternative to traditional surgery, remains unexplored in the treatment of cervical cancer. We searched Medline (1966-2013) and Scopus (2004-2013) search engines, as well as reference lists from all included studies. Ten studies were retrieved; including 6 retros...