REPLACEMENT OF PERITONEUM WITH AMNION FOLLOWING PELVIC EXENTERATION

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 145  (5) , 699-701
Abstract
An analysis was made of 24 patients undergoing pelvic exenteration. By chance, the patients were divided into 2 groups, 12 having the pelvic floor treated by traditional means and 12 in whom amniotic membranes were used. A statistically significant shortening of the hospital stay was experienced by those in the amnion group with a total lack of intestinal complications being related to the raw surface of the pelvis. A large number of recurrent or de novo carcinomas of the vagina following carcinoma of the cervix treated with radiation were identified. Two deaths in this series were related to complications of the small intestine.