title: A clinical-pathologic study of mixed müllerian tumors of the uterus over a 16-year period--the Medical College of Georgia experience.
abstract: From 1972 through 1987, 40 patients at the Medical College of Georgia were assessed with a diagnosis of mixed müllerian tumors which constituted 3.5% of all female genital tract malignancies. The mean patient age was 65.3 years; 60% of the patients had stage I disease. Of those patients with clinical stage I disease, more advanced disease was found at celiotomy in 33%. Retroperitoneal nodes were positive for malignancy in 35% of 20 patients who underwent node sampling. Cell washings were positive in 12%, and 9% had omental metastases. Forty-seven percent had homologous tumors; 53% of tumors were heterologous. Relatively poor prognosis was associated with large tumor volume, vascular invasion, nodal metastases, and disease outside the uterus. The overall survival rate was 32%; 14 of 24 patients with stage I disease are dead of disease. Of patients dead of disease, 92.5% had distant metastases. Adjuvant therapy with a combination of VP-16, cisplatin, and irradiation was beneficial in four high-risk patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Gallup
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Gable
authors.forename: O E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Talledo
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Otken
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000473:pathology*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000453:epidemiology; D010298:Parity; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy