U E S for the partial and the complete pelvic exenteration operations have been described in previous conimunications.'! 2 Once the feasibility of the procedures and the fact that patients could survive several weeks in greater comfort than they had been in prior to operation were demonstrated, the question arose as to whether or not such operations would be worth while.Since these operations were performed only in desperate patients who had received radiation and/or some form of surgical procedure-treatment that had failed to control the disease-no selection of patients was exercised.T h e only contraindication to operation was macroscopic spread of the disease beyond the pelvis.Under these conditions, a high incidence of long-range survivors could not be expected.This report is based upon the results achieved in the first 100 patients.All of them had some form of advanced pelvic cancer involving bladder and vagina-uterus, or the latter and the rectum, or all three, viz., bladder, rectum, and vagina-uterus.T h e primary growths included carcinomas and sarcomas.T h e .majority of the growths were primary in the cervix; also, there were growths primary in the vagina, corpus, pelvic colon, and vulva.A wet colostomy was formed in all except three instances of complete pelvic exenteration: one patient received unilateral cutaneous ureterostoiny and sigmoid ureterostoniy, two patients received bilateral cutaneous ureterostomies.Thirty-five patients received partial pelvic exenteration, sixtyfive, complete.(Of this series, five patients were operated upon by Dr. Michael J.
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Brunschwig et al. (1950) studied this question.