Difference between revisions of "Uterus"

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 **Discouraged... as the cervix remains and can develop a cancer.
 *Total hysterectomy.
+**Indications: endometrial cancer (low stage, good histologic type), [[endometrial hyperplasia]], [[uterine prolapse]], [[uterine adenomyosis]], [[uterine leiomyoma]]s.
 *Radical hysterectomy - total hysterectomy + parametrial tissue.<ref name=pmid19546764>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Frumovitz | first1 = M. | last2 = Sun | first2 = CC. | last3 = Schmeler | first3 = KM. | last4 = Deavers | first4 = MT. | last5 = Dos Reis | first5 = R. | last6 = Levenback | first6 = CF. | last7 = Ramirez | first7 = PT. | title = Parametrial involvement in radical hysterectomy specimens for women with early-stage cervical cancer. | journal = Obstet Gynecol | volume = 114 | issue = 1 | pages = 93-9 | month = Jul | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181ab474d | PMID = 19546764 }}</ref>
 **Indications: cervical cancers, advanced uterine cancers.
 ***This is typically done by gynecologists with additional training at larger centres.
+***Usually done with a bilateral salpingo-opherectomy (both tubes and ovaries) and pelvic lymph node dissection.
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