Splenic metastasis from cervical cancer: case report and review of the literature.
Cervical cancer isolated splenic recurrence is a rare event.We report a case of splenic cervical cancer metastasis treated with salvage surgery 30 months after supralevator anterior pelvic exenteration. In this patient the plasmatic level of squamous cell carcinoma antigen increased in the absence of any evidence of disease at the instrumental examination 24 months after surgery. Surgery had a high impact on quality of life.
Di Donato
Violante
V
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Viale del Policlinico, Rome, Italy. violante.didonato@uniroma1.it
Palaia
Innocenza
I
Perniola
Giorgia
G
Polidori
Nicoletta
N
Burratti
Moira
M
Besharat
Aris
A
Panici
Pierluigi Benedetti
PB
D000328:Adult; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery