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. 2016 Jan;127(1):29-39.
doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001187.

Occult Uterine Sarcoma and Leiomyosarcoma: Incidence of and Survival Associated With Morcellation

Tina Raine-Bennett  1 , Lue-Yen Tucker, Eve Zaritsky, Ramey D Littell, Ted Palen, Romain Neugebauer, Allison Axtell, Peter M Schultze, David W Kronbach, Julia Embry-Schubert, Alvina Sundang, Kimberly Bischoff, Amy L Compton-Phillips, Scott E Lentz
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Occult Uterine Sarcoma and Leiomyosarcoma: Incidence of and Survival Associated With Morcellation

Tina Raine-Bennett et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Jan.

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  • Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Feb;127(2):405

Abstract

Objective: To estimate the incidence of occult uterine sarcoma and leiomyosarcoma in hysterectomies for leiomyomas and the risk associated with their morcellation.

Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study. All uterine sarcomas from 2006-2013 in an integrated health care system were identified. Age- and race-specific incidences of occult uterine sarcoma were calculated. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was performed. Crude and adjusted risk ratios of recurrence and death associated with morcellation at 1, 2, and 3 years were estimated using Poisson regression with inverse probability weighting.

Results: There were 125 hysterectomies with occult uterine sarcomas identified among 34,728 hysterectomies performed for leiomyomas. The incidence of occult uterine sarcoma and leiomyosarcoma was 1 of 278 or 3.60 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.97-4.23) and 1 of 429 or 2.33 (95% CI 1.83-2.84) per 1,000 hysterectomies. For stage I leiomyosarcoma (n=111), eight (7.2%) were power and 27 (24.3%) nonpower-morcellated. The unadjusted 3-year probability of disease-free survival for no morcellation, power and nonpower morcellation was 0.54, 0.19, and 0.51, respectively (P=.15); overall survival was 0.64, 0.75, and 0.68, respectively (P=.97). None of the adjusted risk ratios for recurrence or death were significant except for death at 1 year for power and nonpower morcellation groups combined (6/33) compared with no morcellation (4/76) (5.12, 95% CI 1.33-19.76, P=.02). We had inadequate power to infer differences for all other comparisons including 3-year survival and power morcellation.

Conclusion: Morcellation is associated with decreased early survival of women with occult leiomyosarcomas. We could not accurately assess associations between power morcellation and 3-year survival as a result of small numbers.

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