Table 2.
Medical characteristics and treatment choice.
| Preoperative sample (n= 71) | Radical trachelectomy (n = 43) |
Radical hysterectomy (n = 28) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |
| Type of surgery | 43 | 61% | 28 | 39% |
| Desire to preserve ovaries | Yes: 36 | 84% | Yes: 16 | 57% |
| No: 0 | - | No: 6 | 21.5% | |
| Missing: 7 | 16% | Missing: 6 | 21.5% | |
| Time to complete childbearing | Yes: 3 | 7% | Yes: 12 | 43% |
| No: 32 | 74% | No: 13 | 46% | |
| Missing: 8 | 19% | Missing: 3 | 11% | |
| Fertility factor in decision-making | Yes: 42 | 98% | Yes: 13 | 46% |
| No: - | - | No: 15 | 54% | |
| Missing: 1 | 2% | Missing: - | - | |
| Required postoperative adjuvant treatment | 9 | 21% | 6 | 21% |
| Postoperative sample: (n = 52) | n | % | ||
| Type of radical trachelectomy (n = 33): | ||||
| Vaginal | 25 | 76% | ||
| Abdominal | 8 | 24% | ||
| Radical hysterectomy (n = 19) | Yes: 14 | 74% | ||
| BSO | No: 5 | 26% | ||
BSO, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.