Outcomes of endometrial cancer patients undergoing surgery with gynecologic oncology involvement

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 724-729

  Pearl, Michael L ^a,c   Villella, Jeannine A ^b   Valea, Fidel A ^a,b   DiSilvestro, Paul A ^a,b   Chalas, Eva ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Long Island Gynecologic Oncologists   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036804072     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02089-6     Document Type: Article

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