Fertility-sparing surgical options in patients with early cervical cancer: Radical vaginal or abdominal trachelectomy?

Pigis D, Thomakos N, Lourantou D, Rodolakis A, Antsaklis A

Radical trachelectomy has emerged over the last years as a reasonable fertility-sparing operation for selected patients with stage I cervical cancer. The aim of this review was to summarize the latest literature and outline patient selection criteria, operative and oncologic outcomes. The majority of studies on fertility-sparing procedures in early stage cervical cancer examined …

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