Should the presence of lymphvascular space involvement be used to assign patients to adjuvant therapy following hysterectomy for unstaged endometrial cancer?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 243-246

  Cohn, David E ^a   Horowitz, Neil S ^b   Mutch, David G ^b   Kim, Seok Mo ^b   Manolitsas, Tom ^a   Fowler, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036921816     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.2002.6825     Document Type: Article

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