title: Indications for adjunctive conservative extrafascial hysterectomy in selected cases of carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
abstract: The survival rates for a selected group of patients with large central lesions, either squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma and managed by combining irradiation and a conservative extrafascial hysterectomy, are comparable to those of carcinoma of the cervix in general. Death is caused much more often by distant metastases and intercurrent disease than by failure within the irradiated volume.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy / Q000379:methods*; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000009:adverse effects; D008875:Middle Aged; D010388:Pelvis / Q000528:radiation effects; D011832:Radiation Injuries; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012006:Rectovaginal Fistula / Q000209:etiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D014719:Vesicovaginal Fistula / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes