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Study reports the standard of care for radical hysterectomy in Europe.

Women's Health Weekly

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2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers describe results and complications of radical hysterectomy performed in 12 European institutions to determine the current state of the art.

"Quality control of medical performance requires adequate state-of-the-art data and this is currently not uniformly defined for radical hysterectomy. We have used data from a randomized multicenter clinical trial examining the clinical significance of surgical drains following radical hysterectomy (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)-55962)," researchers in Netherlands report.

"Although the study was not designed to analyze the quality of the surgical procedure per se, surgical data during and after the operation were carefully noted," wrote J.B. Trimbos and colleagues, Leiden University, Medical Center.

"A total of 234 patients from 12 European institutes were included in the study. We reported on the clinical and surgical characteristics, the radicality of surgery, and short- and long-term complications of radical hysterectomy," the researchers stated.

"The median duration of surgery was 240 min; median number of ...

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