Experience with concurrent chemoradiotherapy treatment in advanced cervical cancer: results from a hospital in Argentina.

Objective: To describe our experience with concurrent chemoradiotherapy using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) and high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy with weekly cisplatin in the treatment of patients with locally advanced cervical cancer.

Methods: Forty-three patients were identified between January 2009 and December 2015. Their medical records were retrospectively reviewed, and data on patient characteristics, tumour, treatment and toxicities were collected and analysed.

[Laparoscopic Surgery for isolated lymph nodes recurrence in gynecology. Experience in Argentina.].

Objectives: to describe the perioperative and oncological outcomes of a serie of cases treated with laparoscopic surgery for isolated nodal metastasis of gynecologic malignancies at the Gynecology Service of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and conduct a literature review on the surgical treatment provided to patients with this condition.

Methods: A search was conducted in the surgery records of the Gynecology Service of Hospital Italiano of patients who underwent laparoscopic cytoreductive surgery for isolated nodal recurrence of a gynecologic primary tumor in the period 2009-2015. The medical records were reviewed and data on the patients’ characteristics, the tumor, the surgery and its complications were collected and analyzed.

Laparoscopic surgical staging in women with early stage epithelial ovarian cancer performed by recently certified gynecologic oncologists.

Objective: To compare the surgical and oncological outcomes of laparoscopic versus open surgical staging in patients with early stage ovarian cancer performed by recently certified gynecologic oncologists.

Study Design: A retrospective comparative observational study was performed, which included women who had undergone laparoscopic comprehensive surgical staging for early stage epithelial ovarian cancer between June, 2008 and January, 2014. Patients were compared with women who had undergone laparotomic staging between June, 2006 and January, 2014.

Laparoscopic radical trachelectomy: technique, feasibility, and outcomes.

Background And Objectives: Our objectives are to describe our surgical technique for laparoscopic radical trachelectomy, to evaluate its feasibility, and to present the perioperative results at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Methods: We analyzed 4 patients who underwent laparoscopic radical trachelectomy for early-stage cervical cancer between December 2011 and May 2013.

Results: Four patients were included in this study.