[Is involvement of the clitoris in epidermoid carcinoma of the vulva an adverse prognostic sign?].

Retrospective evaluation of 360 patients with vulvar cancer during the period from 1975 to 1994. From this group in 215 patients radical vulvectomy with bilateral inguinal lymph node extirpation was performed. After excluding 35 patients in the IVth stage of the disease, 11 with vulvar melanoma and 9 who did not attend in the group of the remaining 160 cases 3- 5- and 10-year survival rates were evaluated. Forty of the cancers clitoris of these 160 cases do not confirm that this localisation is a bad prognostic factor.