Fertility and rate of pregnancies after radical vaginal trachelectomy (RVT)
D Speiser, M Lanowska, M Mangler, K Hasenbein, A Schneider, C Köhler · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2008 · Heft 09
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Objective: RVT offers young patients with early cervical cancer the possibility of fertility preservation. Besides oncologic outcome pregnancy rate and course of pregnancies are of utmost importance. Methods: Retro- and prospective analysis of all patients of the German Uterus VI-study (n=100) and 46 patients operated after study recruitment concerning their reproductive outcome. Results: Since 05/2005 146 patients have been followed up after RVT. The mean age at RVT was 35.1 [21;48] years of age. Of these patients only 46 (31.5%) reported an acute desire to have children. Altogether, 36 pregnancies occurred in…