Laparoscopic extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy in the staging of locally advanced cervical cancer: is it a feasible procedure at a peripheral center?

Objective: The study's aim was to evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy at a peripheral center for the staging of patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC).

Methods: From March 2009 to January 2011, 30 patients with LACC underwent laparoscopic extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy. All patients were treated with definitive radiotherapy tailored according to the staging results.

Follow-up after LLETZ: a study of 682 cases of CIN 2-CIN 3 in a single institution.

Objective: To evaluate the importance of resection margins in the risk of persistent/recurrent lesions and to investigate other factors such as detection of high-risk HPV, which could potentially predict persistent/recurrent disease before patients engage in follow-up.

Study Design: 682 women with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of CIN 2-3 treated by loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) were included, between January 2000 and December 2006. Age, high-risk HPV detection determined by Hybrid Capture II and cone margins were evaluated as possible predictors of persistent/recurrent disease.

Pure papillary serous tumors of the endometrium: a clinicopathological analysis of 61 cases from a single institution.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological data and prognosis factors corresponding to patients with papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium treated at a single institution.

Methods: Medical and anatomopathological records were reviewed in the Department of Gynecological Oncology of the Canarian University Hospital between 1989 and 2006. Only pure cases of papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium were included.