Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Radical hysterectomy in the elderly | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Research Radical hysterectomy in the elderly Azamsadat Mousavi Mojgan Karimi Zarchi Mitra Modares Gilani Nadereh Behtash Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami Maryam Shams and Maryam Irvanipoor Address Gynecologic Oncology Department Vali-e-Asr Hospital Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex Keshavarz Blvd. Tehran 14914 Iran Email Azamsadat Mousavi - azamsadat_mousavi@ Mojgan Karimi Zarchi - drkarimi2001@ Mitra Modares Gilani - mmodares@ Nadereh Behtash - nadbehtash@ Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami - ftghaemmagh@ Maryam Shams - mshams@ Maryam Irvanipoor - mirvanipoor@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 7 April 2008 Received 19 March 2007 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 38 doi 1477-7819-6-38 Accepted 7 April 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 38 2008 Mousavi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The considerable increase in life expectancy on one hand and an increase in cervical cancer among Iranian patients on the other brings out the importance of investigating whether radical surgery can be performed safely and effectively on patients above 60 years of age. Methods In a study of historical cohort all 22 patients 60 years and above who have undergone a Wertheim radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer from 1999 to 2005 were compared with 128 matched cases under 60 years of age who had undergone a Wertheim hysterectomy during the same calendar year. All patients were analyzed for preexisting medical comorbidities length of postoperative stay morbidity and postoperative mortality. Results There was no operative mortality in either group morbidity minor p .
