Due to the rarity of primary fallopian tube Ž . adenocarcinoma PFTA , the optimal management has not been well defined, especially in the early-stage of the disease. Furthermore, the role of adjuvant therapy in the early-stage of the disw x ease has not shown a benefit in survival 1 . It may be contributed partly to underestimated staging, or ineffective adjuvant therapy. For evaluating the value of adjuvant therapy, we retrospectively studied the patients with proven surgicopathological stage I PFTA. Eleven patients from 1970 to 1995 were confirmed to have full surgical staging I after receiving a complete, thorough surgical staging surgery including washing cytology, abdominal total hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, partial omentectomy, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and excisional