title: Conservative therapy for microinvasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate conservative therapy for microinvasive carcinoma (MIC) of the cervix. Large contact Nd-YAG laser conization (laser cone) with contact vaporization using contact probes was performed on 90 cases of MIC and 21 cases of early invasive carcinoma (early IC), with long-term postoperative follow-up for patients at Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan. The cure rates of MIC and early IC were 96.7 and 80.9%, respectively. The rates of incomplete excision and true residuation in cases with MIC were 17.8 and 10.0% and those in cases with early IC were 76.2 and 19.0%. Therefore, the spontaneous cure rate following incomplete excision of MIC and early IC was 43.7 and 75.0%. Hysterectomy was performed, for various indications, after cone in 5 patients (5.6%) with MIC, none of the patients with IC of less than 3 mm, 2 (22.2%) of the patients with IC of 3.1 to 5 mm, and 7 patients (87.5%) whose IC was 5.1 mm or more in depth. Combining the data from our department and those in the literature collected an incidence of lymph node metastasis of 0.15% for MIC and of 1.13% of IC of less than 5 mm. In conclusion, conservative therapy is indicated for MIC, and the contact laser cone with contact vaporization is considered to be an excellent therapeutic conservative method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka Medical College, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Misaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Seiki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitsuki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000601:surgery