Pre and intraoperative diagnosis of ovarian tumours: How accurate are we?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-227

  Lim, Fang Kan ^a   Yeoh, Chee Lim ^a   Chong, Siew Meng ^a   Arulkumaran, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030992676     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1997.tb02259.x     Document Type: Article

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