Can we omit para-aorta lymph node dissection in endometrial cancer?

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 578-581

  Tanaka, Hidenori ^a   Sato, Hirokazu ^a   Miura, Hiroshi ^a   Sato, Naoki ^a   Fujimoto, Toshio ^a   Konishi, Yoshitomo ^a   Takahashi, Osamu ^a   Tanaka, Toshinobu ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Systemic pelvic and para aortic lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; ILIAC VEIN; JAPAN; KIDNEY VEIN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750103181     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyl066     Document Type: Article

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