IMR Press / EJGO / Volume 26 / Issue 5 / pii/2005216

European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology (EJGO) is published by IMR Press from Volume 40 Issue 1 (2019). Previous articles were published by another publisher on a subscription basis, and they are hosted by IMR Press on imrpress.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with S.O.G.

Original Research

Radical hysterectomy for cervical carcinoma in pregnant women - a case of decidua mimicking metastatic carcinoma in pelvic lymph nodes

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1 Departments of Gynecological Oncology and Pathology, St. Stephens Hospital, Budapest (Hungary)
2 Departments of Pathology, St. Stephens Hospital, Budapest (Hungary)
Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 2005, 26(5), 499–500;
Published: 10 October 2005
Abstract

Intraoperative histology is commonly used to guide the treatment of women with carcinoma of the cervix. We present a case where frozen section of the pelvic lymph nodes from a pregnant woman was suggestive of metastatic cervical carcinoma but final histol­ogy showed only decidual change.

Keywords
Cervical cancer
Pregnancy
Ectopic
Decidua
Frozen section
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