title: [Discrepancies between clinical and surgical--pathologic staging of cervical carcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Cervical cancer is the only gynecological tumor staged clinically. The aim of this study was comparison of clinical staging to surgical specimen evaluation in cervical cancer patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical staging of cervical cancer was compared to histopathological outcome in prospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred patients with cervical cancer treated with radical hysterectomy combined with pelvic lymphadenectomy were included in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Discrepancies between clinical and surgico-pathological staging occurred in 62% of cases. The tendency towards overdiagnosis was found to be increasing with local advancement of neoplasm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Accuracy of preliminary cervical cancer staging needs further improvement.
authors.affiliation: Oddział Ginekologii i Połoznictwa Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Specjalistycznego w Rzeszowie. b.obrzut@interia.pl
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Obrzut
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skret
authors.forename: Obrzut
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Marzanna
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laczyńska-Madera
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Król
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007813:Laparotomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011044:Poland; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D016387:Women's Health