Diagnostic accuracy of prehysterectomy curettage in determining tumor type and grade in patients with endometrial cancer

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Vorgias, George ^a   Lekka, Joanna ^a   Katsoulis, Michael ^a   Varhalama, Eugenia ^a   Kalinoglou, Nickolas ^a   Akrivos, Thrassivoulos ^a  

^a METAXA CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 25144498393     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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