BACKGROUND A current paradigm in the treatment of cervical cancer with radiation therapy is that intracavitary brachytherapy is an essential component of radical treatment. This is a matched retrospective comparison of the results of treatment in patients treated with external beam chemoradiation (EBRT-CT) and radical hysterectomy versus those treated with identical chemoradiation followed by b...

BACKGROUD AND OBJECTIVE Nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy (NSRH) may be associated with lower postoperative morbidity than radical hysterectomy (RH). We aimed to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of abdominal or laparoscopic NSRH and RH for treating cervical cancer through systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library and the Chinese National Knowle...

PURPOSE To compare surgical outcomes of robotic radical hysterectomy (RRH) using 3 robotic arms with those of conventional laparoscopy in patients with early cervical cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study included 102 patients with stage 1A1-IIA2 cervical carcinoma, of whom 60 underwent robotic and 42 underwent laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) with pelvic lymph nod...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of laparoscopic hysterectomy and abdominal hysterectomy in the abdominal trial, and laparoscopic hysterectomy and vaginal hysterectomy in the vaginal trial. DESIGN Two parallel, multicentre, randomised trials. SETTING 28 UK centres and two South African centres. PARTICIPANTS 1380 women were recruited; 1346 had surgery; 937 were followed up at one year. Pri...

background: cervical cancer is the second most common malignancy in women worldwide. vaginal bleeding and vaginal discharge are the most common symptoms. although ascites has been reported in cases with cervical cancer, it is due to other causes such as ovarian metastasis. case presentation: a 78-year-old diabetic woman who presented with ascites and abdominopelvic mass was misdiagnosed with ov...

Hysterectomy currently occupies one of the leading places among obstetric and gynecological surgeries is highly effective sometimes only method treating various diseases female genital organs. Quite often, however, hysterectomy results not in elimination cause disease, but also development complications that reduce quality life patients. More more attention being paid to neurological complicati...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is a very common gynaecological procedure which has a significant place in optimizing the reproductive health outcomes of women. OBJECTIVES To document the indications, the type of hysterectomy commonly performed, the difficulties encountered and complications of the procedure at the Central Hospital, Benin City. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective review ...