Pelvic Exenteration for Carcinoma of the Cervix
- 24 March 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 274 (12) , 648-651
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196603242741203
Abstract
PELVIC exenteration, the radical removal of the uterus, cervix and vagina or the bladder and rectum (or all these organs) although a very extensive and mutilating procedure, is occasionally the only means of curing a patient with pelvic carcinoma.After fifteen years of experience with pelvic exenteration we thought it was time to assess the indications for this operation and the results achieved. The material here represents all the pelvic exenterations for gynecologic tumors, ward and private, done at the Vincent Memorial Hospital, the gynecologic service of the Massachusetts General Hospital, from 1949 through 1963, except for the patients of . . .This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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