Problems with the current diagnostic approach to complex atypical endometrial hyperplasia

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 729-731

  Soslow, Robert A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; METASTASIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 32544460448     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21663     Document Type: Review

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