[Prolonged survival of a female patient with total pelvic exenteration].

BACKGROUND

To present a female patient who lived 5 years after total pelvic exenteration (TPE).

CASE REPORT: The female patient underwent TPE due to retrovesicovaginal fistula as a consequence of locoregional irradiation after the operation for the malignoma of the vaginal part of the uterus. In the formation of Bricker conduit, the ureter antireflux was achieved by the application of the "tobacco sack muff" made of the intestines around the ureter. By the use of this technique, the occurrence of pyelonephritis, as the leading cause of death in such patients, was prevented.

CONCLUSION

TPE is a hope for significantly prolonged survival of patients with advanced pelvic malignomas, or with a postirradiatiation fistula.