Small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix: a case report and literature review.

Abstract

Small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive extra-pulmonary variant of small cell tumors. This carcinoma of the cervix comprises less than 5% of all cervical carcinomas and is know to be highly undifferentiated. It is associated with a poor prognosis and characterized by premature distant nodal involvement. The survival rate at all stages ranges from 17% to 67%. We describe the case of a 41 year old female patient with a rare, and aggressive, clinical stage IB1 small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix. The goal of this case report is to describe this rare pathology and contribute information to the scant available data.