Abstract
1.1. Twenty-four cases of sarcoma of the uterus, including two cases of sarcoma botryoides in children, occurring in twenty-four years at the University of Virginia Hospital are presented.2.2. Four patients (18 per cent) received intracavity irradiation more than ten years prior to the diagnosis of sarcoma.3.3. The diagnosis of sarcoma was established by diagnostic curettage in three patients and suggested in a fourth.4.4. The five-year survival rate for sarcoma in adults was 8 per cent.5.5. One child with sarcoma botryoides is alive, without recurrence, three and one-half years following x-ray therapy.
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