The retained cervical stump. A 25-year experience.

During a 25-year period on one service at the Mayo Clinic, 262 cervical stumps were removed surgically: 208 vaginally and 54 abdominally. In this series, 46 patients had malignancy of the cervical stump. When a cervical stump is present, it most often can be expeditiously removed during the course of additional vaginal repairs with extremely few risks and complications, and low morbidity.