The authors review the literature related to cervical cancer stump. Then they expose their personal experience that consists of 6 cases observed in the Clinical Gynecologic Clinical Hospital from 1937 to 1955 on a total of 8,000 hospitalized ill. Stump cancer was presented in 1.14% in relation to cervical cancer including a matching case. Admitting only true, this incidence is 0.95%. Regarding employment of total or subtotal hysterectomy, but prefer the former believe that subtotal can not be abandoned in the treatment of conditions requiring a hysterectomy. They insist on the need to carefully study the cervix before setting the operating behavior and control the remaining stump after subtotal hysterectomy.

The authors review the literature related to cervical cancer stump. Then they expose their personal experience that consists of 6 cases observed in the Clinical Gynecologic Clinical Hospital from 1937 to 1955 on a total of 8,000 hospitalized ill. Stump cancer was presented in 1.14% in relation to cervical cancer including a matching case. Admitting only true, this incidence is 0.95%. Regarding employment of total or subtotal hysterectomy, but prefer the former believe that subtotal can not be abandoned in the treatment of conditions requiring a hysterectomy. They insist on the need to carefully study the cervix before setting the operating behavior and control the remaining stump after subtotal hysterectomy.