The outcome of endometrial carcinoma surveillance by ultrasound scan in women at risk of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma and familial colorectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1708-1712

  Dove Edwin, Isis ^a   Boks, Dominique ^b   Goff, Sheila ^a   Kenter, Gemma G ^b   Carpenter, Robert ^c   Vasen, Hans F A ^b   Thomas, Huw J W ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma syndrome; Surveillance; Transvaginal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PELVIS; RISK FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 0037086654     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10380     Document Type: Article

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