Fertility-Sparing Surgery for Early-Stage Cervical Cancer

Table 2

Characteristics and oncological outcome of RVT.

Authors	Planned surgeries	Fertility preserved	Positive nodes	LVSI	Histology			Recurrence		Deaths
					SCC	AC	O	≤2 cm	>2 cm
Shepherd et al. [7, 8]	158	138	7	49	103	51	4	3^**		4
Sonoda et al. [18]	43	36	2	NA	24	16	3	1/36	0/0	1
Pahisa et al. [14]	15	13	0	1	9	6	0	1/11	1/2	1
Chen et al. [19]	16	16	0	1	14	2	0	0/9	0/7	0
Hertel et al. [17]	108	106	2	38	74	33	1	3/105	1/1	2
Dargent et al. [2, 20]	135	118	9	43	90^*	25^*	3^*	1/91	6/27	5
Plante et al. [21]	140	125	9	32	69^*	48^*	8^*	3/111	3/14	2
Covens et al. [7, 22]	93	91	2	31	40	50	3	5/83	1/8	4
Burnett et al. [12, 23]	21	18	1	6	12	9	0	0	0	0
Schlaerth et al. [24]	12	10	0	1	4^*	5^*	1^*	0/10	0/0	0
Mathevet et al. [13]	108	95	8	23	76^*	18^*	1^*	0/85	4/8	3
Total	849	766	40	225	559	264	24	33		24

^*Only after VRT; ^**data not available for the number of recurrences > and ≤2 cm; NA: not available data.