All issues > Volume 38(5); 1995

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1995;38(5):707-712. Published online May 15, 1995.

Treatment of Vaginal Endodermal Sinus Tumor

Seok Joo SJ Han¹, Myo Kyung MK Lee¹, Chuhl-Joo CJ Lyu², Byung Soo BS Kim², Eui Ho EH Hwang¹

¹Department of Pediatric Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

An endodermal sinus tumor of the vagina, a rare pediatric malignancy, was managed with c onservative surgey followed by adjuvant chemotherapy(vincristine, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide : VAC). Treatment related complications were acceptible, and there is no evidence of d isease twenty months after diagnosis. As a treatment option, primary conservative surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy is viewed as a highly attractive alternative modality, preserving potential reproductive and sexual function in long-term survivors, and appears to be the treatment of c hoice in primary vaginal endodermal sinus tumor of infant.

Keywords :Enedodermal sinus tumor, Conservative surgery, Chemotherapy