Advanced endometrial cancer: Is lymphadenectomy necessary or sufficient?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 191-193

  Scott Miller, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OVARY CANCER; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 33646430029     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.03.027     Document Type: Editorial

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