Role of appendectomy at the time of primary surgery in patients with early-stage ovarian cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 888-890

  Ramirez, Pedro T ^a   Slomovitz, Brian M ^a   McQuinn, Lacey ^b   Levenback, Charles ^a   Coleman, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; OVARY CANCER; PERITONEUM CANCER; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE TUBE TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 33751513296     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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