title: Five-year survival of a patient with primary endometrial squamous cell carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Primary endometrial squamous cell carcinoma (PESCC) is an uncommon entity, with fewer than 100 cases reported in the English literature. Survival data for PESCC are not well reported and a precise five-year survival rate for PESCC has not been determined. This study focuses on the five-year survival of a 61-year-old patient with PESCC and adds information to an area which is not well documented. The patient was treated by hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and assigned to FIGO stage lb. No adjuvant therapy was given. During the 60-month follow-up period, the patient remained free of disease. This outcome suggests that in the early stage of PESCC, surgical treatment alone is adequate to arrest the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynaecology, George Gennimatas General State Hospital of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Varras
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kioses
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010052:Ovariectomy; D010298:Parity; D017698:Postmenopause; D011379:Prognosis; D012489:Salpingostomy; D017741:Survivors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology