[Discrepancies between clinical and surgical--pathologic staging of cervical carcinoma].
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.
Obrzut
Bogdan
B
Oddział Ginekologii i Połoznictwa Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Specjalistycznego w Rzeszowie. b.obrzut@interia.pl
Skret
Andrzej
A
Marzanna
Obrzut
O
Laczyńska-Madera
Monika
M
Król
Piotr
P
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