Adequate staging for uterine cancer can be performed through Pfannenstiel incisions

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 404-410

  Horowitz, Neil S ^a,c   Powell, Matthew A ^a   Drescher, Charles W ^b   Smith, Michael R ^b   Atwood, Mary ^b   Mate, Timothy A ^b   Peters III, William A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pfannenstiel incision; Staging; Uterine cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

EID: 0037340859     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-8258(02)00166-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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