The virtues and pitfalls of minimally invasive surgery for gynecological malignancies: An update

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-59

  Childers, Joel M ^a  

^a Arizona Oncology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HELIUM;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0033054825     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199901000-00010     Document Type: Article

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