[A clinical study on endocervical type and endometrioid type cervical adenocarcinoma]

Seventy-seven patients with cervical adenocarcinoma were treated at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Medical School from 1974 to 1987. Of these carcinomas, 42 (54.5%) were endocervical types and 35 (45.5%) were endometrioid types. Of the endocervical types 23.8% (10/42) were stage III-IV tumors, whereas 2.9% (1/35) of the endometrioid types were stage III-IV tumors (p less than 0.05). No significant differences were found between endocervical type and endometrioid type in the clinical background, the rate of lymph node involvement or the 5-year survival rate.