Transrectal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of tumor size following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer.

Objectives: To assess the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) in the evaluation of tumor size and in the detection of residual tumor following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in patients with cervical cancer.

Methods: This was a prospective study involving 42 women with locally advanced histologically confirmed cervical cancer referred for NACT. Clinical examination, TRUS and MRI were performed before and after NACT.

Abdominal radical trachelectomy in fertility-sparing treatment of early-stage cervical cancer.

Background: Abdominal radical trachelectomy (ART) is one of the fertility-sparing procedures in women with early-stage cervical cancer. In comparison with vaginal radical trachelectomy, the published results of ART are so far limited.

Methods: Enrolled were women referred for ART either by laparoscopy or laparotomy.

[Detection of HPV DNA in lymph nodes in early stages cervical cancers].

Objective: Review recent knowledge concerning significance of detection of DNA HPV in regional lymph nodes in cervical cancer patients.

Type Of The Study: Literature review.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gyneacology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General Teaching Hospital, Prague.

[Radical parametrectomy in women with invasive cervix cancer after previous simple hysterectomy].

Objective: Evaluate technique, indications and limits of surgical procedure in the treatment of cervical cancer diagnosed from uterus specimen from simple hysterectomy.

Design: Retrospective observational study, review of literature.

Settings: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1st Medical Faculty and General Faculty Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

[Exenteration procedures in the pelvis].

Exenteration pelvic procedures are surgical options for treatment of locally advanced pelvic tumors. Due to the procedure's success rates, it has become a standard therapeutic procedure, when indicated. From the medical point of view, the following factors characterize the level of seriousness of these procedures: the fact that the procedure is extensive, its complicated reconstruction phase and high postoperative morbidity rates.