title: Case report of a sarcoma botryoides of the uterine cervix in fertile age and literature review.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second University of Naples, Via Palasciano, AORN Sant'Anna e S. Sebastiano, 81100 Caserta, Italy. scaravilli@msn.com
authors.forename: Giuseppina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scaravilli
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Simeone
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dell'Aversana Orabona
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Capuano
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serao
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Orabona
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Balbi
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents