Case report of a sarcoma botryoides of the uterine cervix in fertile age and literature review.
BACKGROUND
The sarcoma botryoides of the cervix uteri occurs very rarely in fertile women.


METHODS
Here is a case of a 35-year-old fertile woman, who developed a sarcoma botryoides of the cervix uteri. The diagnosis required clinical examination, ecography, NMR, CT scan and a pathological examination of the surgical sample. Radical surgery and chemotherapy was performed. The patients is still living after more than 1 year after treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
Although the combined modality approach has given, if not constant, acceptable outcomes, a larger investigation on all the cases of sarcoma botryoides of the cervix uteri is expected.
Scaravilli
Giuseppina
G
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second University of Naples, Via Palasciano, AORN Sant'Anna e S. Sebastiano, 81100 Caserta, Italy. scaravilli@msn.com
Simeone
Serena
S
Dell'Aversana Orabona
Giancarlo
G
Capuano
Simona
S
Serao
Michele
M
Rossi
Renato
R
Orabona
Pasquale
P
Balbi
Carlo
C
D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D018233:Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents