[Radical surgical treatment of vulvar epidermoid cancer].
During an eighteen-year period, forty-nine patients with invasive epidermoid carcinoma of the vulva were treated by a radical vulvectomy at the Hôtel-Dieu de France hospital in Beirut. The age, the clinical presentation, and the lymph nodes involvement were close to what was published in the literature. The overall five-year survival rate was 72%. Those with stage I disease lesions had an excellent survival rate. A review of the literature would indicate that a conservative approach in the treatment of early invasive lesions can give satisfactory results, and that adjuvant radiotherapy is more beneficial than pelvic lymph nodes dissection when there is a high risk of pelvic involvement.
Hôtel-Dieu de France, Unité de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Rue Alfred Naccache, Beyrouth, Liban.
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D017677:Age Distribution; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007861:Lebanon / Q000453:epidemiology; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*