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Laporovaginal surgery in cervcal cancer: A Croatian experience

With correct staging a large number of patients with cervical cancer FIGO stages IA2 and IB can be spares of unnecessary radiation therapy by laparoscopic assisted vaginal radical hysterectomy (LAVRH). As an option of radical surgical treatment in such patients. The development of laparovaginal surgery, indication and contraindication were presented. Aslo, the surgical technique was described in detail. Fifty-two patients were followed up in 2003 after LAVRH or open surgery, performed in our single center Only 5 (14 %) patients died from cervical cancer within three years following the treatment. They were all clinical stageIB treated with open surgery. There were 4 (11%) complications following treatment and they were all in patients with clinical stage IB , also treated with open surgery. There was no complication in LAVRH treated patients. The results in complications of the sole Croatian ceneter performing LAVRH or open surgery in patients with cervical cancer FIGO stages IA and IB were similar to those in centers across the world.

radical vaginal hysterectomy; pelvic lymphadenectomy; abdominal hysterectomy; lapaoscopic lymphadenectomy; gynecologic-ocology; stage-ib; trachelectomy; carcinoma; preservation; fertility

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