Presenting symptoms of epithelial ovarian cancer

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-214

  Lataifeh, Isam ^a   Marsden, Donald E ^a   Robertson, Greg ^a   Gebski, Val ^b   Hacker, Neville F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; COHORT STUDIES; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, SEROUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 20544477377     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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