The incidence of parametrial tumor involvement in select patients with early cervix cancer is too low to justify parametrectomy

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 475-480

  Stegeman, M ^a   Louwen, M ^a   van der Velden, J ^b   ten Kate, F J W ^b   den Bakker, M A ^a   Burger, C W ^a   Ansink, A C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conization; Early cervix cancer; Fertility sparing treatment; Infiltration depth; LVSI; Parametrial ivolvement; Pelvic lyph node; Pregnancy outcome; Radical abdominal hysterectomy; Trachelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMETRECTOMY; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CONIZATION; UTERUS SURGERY;

ADULT; CONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PELVIC FLOOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247142371     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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