Clinical and histopathological studies were made on 202 cases of malignancy of cervix, that were visited to the Department of Obstertrics and Gynecology, Yeungnam University Hospital, during 5 years from 1983 to 1987.
The results were summarised as follows.
1. Malignancies of the uterine cervix were 10% of total female malignancies.
2. Among 202 cases, 195 cases(95.5%) were squamous cell carcinoma, in which 60 cases(30.0%) of carcinoma in situ, 9 cases(4%) of microinvasive, and 126 cases(62.5%) of invasive carcir,.oma. were included.
3.. The average age of the patients with squamous cell carcinoma was 49.4 years old. ; In cases of carcinoma in situ, it was 43.8, microinvasive, 40.0,_ invasive 52.1 years old.
4. Clinical symptoms of the patient with squamous cell carcinoma in order of frequency were as follows. ; vaginal bleeding(47.5%), abnormal cytology(15.4%), and abnormal vaginal discharge(9.4%).
5. Duration of the chief complaints was most commanly less than 6 months(73.2%), and the average duration was 3.8 months.
6. The most common age of marriage was between 19 to 22 years old(46.5%). The average was 21.5 years old.
7. The gravity was 51.5% in 5-8 times, and average 6.2 times. The parity was 61.9% in 1-4 times, and average 3.9 times.
8. The subdivision of 126 cases of invasive carcinoma was made according to FIGO stage classification, stage I , 40 cases(31.8%), stage II , 54 cases(42.9%), stage ]j[, 11 cases(8.7%), and stage 1V, 8 cases(6.3%).
9. The histologic subtypes of invasive squamous cell carcinoma were distributed as follows. ; large cell keratinizing type, 25 cases(19.8%), large cell nonkeratinizing type, 101 cases(80.2%).
10. In the cytologic diagnosis, class I was 2 cases(1.9%), class II was 16 cases(15.1%), class f was 33 cases(31.1%), class IV was 31 cases(29.3%), class V was 24 cases(24.6%).
11. The frequency of lymph node metastasis was 7.5% in stage I, and 11.1% in stage II .
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