[Post-radiotherapy pelvic exenteration in relapsed cervical cancer: experience of a tertiary health service in the northeast of Brazil].

Purpose: to analyze complications, morbidity, mortality and survival rate in a group of patients with cervical cancer with central pelvic relapse after primary radiotherapy treatment.

Methods: retrospective study of a series of 16 cases of pelvic exenteration after primary radiotherapy treatment. Descriptive statistics, survival curve through Kaplan-Meier's method, and regression analysis to evaluate prognosis were performed.

Interstitial cystitis and systemic lupus erythematosus in a 20-year-old woman.

A 20-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with dysuria, urinary frequency and suprapubic pain and was found to have a chronic interstitial cystitis, a chronic inflammation of the bladder wall, mostly affecting middle-aged women. Chronic interstitial cystitis is an uncommon manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus.