Does Hysteroscopy Produce Intraperitoneal Spread of Endometrial Cancer Cells?

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 280-284

  Revel, Ariel ^a   Tsafrir, Avi ^a   Anteby, Shaul O ^a   Shushan, Asher ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UTERUS BLEEDING;

DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PERITONEUM; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1642322409     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OGX.0000120173.09136.4A     Document Type: Review

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