BACKGROUND To report outcomes in women with locally recurrent or advanced cervical cancer who received intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IOERT) as a component of therapy. METHODS From 1983 to 2010, 86 patients with locally recurrent (n = 73, 85%) or primary advanced (n = 13, 15%) cervical cancer received IOERT following surgery. Common surgeries included pelvic exenteration (n = 26; ...

PURPOSE Malnutrition is associated with an increased risk of developing complications following gastrointestinal surgery, especially following radical surgeries such as pelvic exenteration. This study aims to determine if preoperative body mass index (BMI) is associated with 30-day morbidity, length of hospital stay and/or quality of life (QoL) in patients undergoing pelvic exenteration surgery...

AIM To determine the immediate surgical outcome and recovery of bowel function following posterior pelvic exenteration (PPE) for primary rectal cancer with suspected local invasion to the female internal reproductive organs, in comparison with a case-control series of standard resection for primary rectal cancer. METHODS We analyzed 10 consecutive female patients undergoing PPE for the aforem...

542 Background: Patients with advanced primary or recurrent colorectal cancers that undergo total pelvic exenteration for cure or palliation require proximal urinary and fecal diversion. The most commonly used diversion technique is use of an ileal conduit (IC) and end colostomy. At our institute, the double-barreled wet colostomy (DBWC) has been shown to be have similar outcomes and technicall...