Gastric perforation: a late complication of abdominal radiation for para-aortic lymph node metastasis from cervical squamous carcinoma.

Gastric perforation was found at laparotomy for acute abdominal pain in a woman treated with pelvic and abdominal radiation for squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix metastatic to the para-aortic nodes. This case may provide additional evidence suggesting that risks involved in para-aortic radiation may outweigh the benefits.