The retained cervical stump. A 25-year experience.
During a 25-year period on one service at the Mayo Clinic, 262 cervical stumps were removed surgically: 208 vaginally and 54 abdominally. In this series, 46 patients had malignancy of the cervical stump. When a cervical stump is present, it most often can be expeditiously removed during the course of additional vaginal repairs with extremely few risks and complications, and low morbidity.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy / Q000379:methods; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013997:Time Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery