Intraabdominal lymphatic mapping to direct selective pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy in women with high-risk endometrial cancer: Results of a pilot study

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-173

  Burke, Thomas W ^a   Levenback, Charles ^a   Tornos, Carmen ^a   Morris, Mitchell ^a   Wharton, J Taylor ^a   Gershenson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFINE BLUE;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INJECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

EID: 0030221058     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0211     Document Type: Article

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