The prognostic significance of lower uterine segment involvement in surgically staged endometrial cancer patients with negative nodes

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-58

  Brown, A K ^a   Madom, L ^a   Moore, R ^a   Granai, C O ^a   DiSilvestro, P ^a  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Lower uterine segment; Nodal disease; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERUS;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33947301177     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.10.058     Document Type: Article

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