Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix : a Clinicopathological Study

Abstract

Objective To determine factors which correlated to the risk of recurrence for adeno carcinoma of the uterine cervix treated initially by surgery. Design A retrospective study. Setting University hospital. Subjects The clinical information and pathologic specimens of adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix were retrospectively reviewed for 74 patients who initially had been treated by radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy between 1983 and 1994.

Main outcome measures Significance of variables in relation to recurrence. Results Significant differences in risk of recurrence were observed among the patients with and without lymph node metastasis (50% vs 15.2%, P = 0.03), and the tumours Conclusion Nodal metastasis and histologic grade were related to recurrence in surgically treated cervical adenocarcinoma.