Abstract

RUIZ LORENTE, Raiza; HERNANDEZ DURAN, Daisy; TAMAYO LIEN, Tania Graciela  and  DE LA TORRE, Ana Isabel. Vaginal primary cancer. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2010, vol.36, n.3, pp. 469-476. ISSN 1561-3062.

The primary vaginal carcinoma is a uncommon neoplasm present only in the 1-2% of all the malignant tumors of gynecology area. According to International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics only is considered as a primary vaginal cancer of those lesions confined to vagina without invasion of cervix or the vulva. The prognosis depends mainly on the disease stage, but the survival is reduced in patients aged over 60 if they are symptomatic at diagnosis, have lesions of the center and the inferior third of vagina or have ill-differentiated. The objectives of present study were to assess the experience in the vaginal primary cancer management, to identify demographic and clinical variables, to show the histological variety of presentation of this so rare neoplasm, as well as the differentiation grade of each case and to relate the cancer stage, the treatment and the response of each patient. It is retrospective study conducted in 5 patients presenting vaginal primary cancer seen in the Cervix Pathology Service of the "Ramón González Coro" Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital during 2008. The initial assessment included a complete medical record, physical examination with emphasis in the gynecological area ruling out vulva or cervix uteri lesions. All patients underwent excision biopsy of tumor with the corresponding histopathological study of the sample. A cystoscopy, rectoscopy descending urogram were carried out in those patients with a possible bladder or rectum infiltration, lab tests, thorax Rx staged according the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics classification.

Keywords : Vaginal neoplasm; primary cancer; metastasis; adenocarcinoma; choriocarcinoma; epidermoid carcinoma.

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