title: Total laparoscopic radical trachelectomy with intraoperative sentinel node identification for early cervical stump cancer.
abstract: A 60-year-old patient had undergone a subtotal hysterectomy through a standard laparotomy approach due to multiple uterine myomas 6 years before. She had a 1-month history of postmenopausal uterine bleeding. An endocervical polyp was found and excised. The histopathologic examination showed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen and pelvis revealed the mass (4x2x2.5 cm) without parametrial involvement previously identified on vaginal examination. There was no retroperitoneal adenopathy. The patient was successfully treated with total laparoscopic radical trachelectomy in association with laparoscopic intraoperative detection of the sentinel lymph node.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Materno-infantil Vall d'Hebron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 32114osf@comb.es
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Díaz-Feijoo
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gil-Moreno
authors.forename: Oriol
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Puig
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Martínez-Palones
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xercavins
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D013509:Gynecologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*