Table 1.

Patient Characteristics and Surgical Outcomes

	VRT (n=28)	ART (n=15)	P value
Median Age (years)	30 (27–32)	34 (32–36)	0.0003
Histology:			0.53
Adenocarcinoma	13 (46.6%)	9 (60%)
Squamous cell carcinoma	15 (53.6%)	6 (40%)
Residual Disease in Specimen	14 (50%)	9 (60%)	0.74
Lymph vascular space invasion	10 (35.7%)	7 (46.7%)	0.53
Median lymph nodes obtained	31 (21–42)	24 (18–30)	0.14
Conversion to hysterectomy	2 (7.1%)	2 (13.3%)	0.6
Median estimated blood loss (mL)	100 (56–200)	300 (100–350)	0.001
Median operating time (minutes)	363 (310–398)	319 (298–338)	0.01
Complications (# patients)	12	2	0.09
Median hospital stay (days)	3 (3–5)	4 (3–5)	0.35
Median follow up interval (months)	24.9 (12.7–31.2)	11.6 (2.7–18.2)	0.006
Radiation or chemoradiation	5 (17.9%)	7 (46.7%)	0.07

Results reported as n (%) or n (25%ile – 75%ile). VRT, vaginal radical trachelectomy; ART, abdominal radical trachelectomy.