cervicectomy
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In gynecologic oncology, trachelectomy, also called cervicectomy, is a surgical removal of the uterine cervix. As the uterine body is preserved, this type of surgery is a fertility preserving surgical alternative to a radical hysterectomy and applicable in selected younger women with early cervical cancer.
Research
1,030 papers- Fertility Preservation in Cervical Cancer-Treatment Strategies and Indications.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024
- Radical trachelectomy.International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society · 2021
- Radical vaginal trachelectomy.Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology · 2021
- Vaginal cervicectomy.Obstetrics and gynecology · 1967
- Radical Vaginal Trachelectomy.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2021
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- Indications
- Trachelectomy compared to other treatments
- Pregnancy post-trachelectomy
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In gynecologic oncology, trachelectomy, also called cervicectomy, is a surgical removal of the uterine cervix. As the uterine body is preserved, this type of surgery is a fertility preserving surgical alternative to a radical hysterectomy and applicable in selected younger women with early cervical cancer.
==Types== Trachelectomies, broadly, can be divided into the simple and radical variants.