Surgical treatment of endometrial cancer: Does closure or non-closure of the vagina affect the local recurrence rate?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3 B, 2007, Pages 1589-1591

  Kohlberger, Petra ^a   Nowotny, Gustav ^a   Speiser, Paul ^a   Joura, Elmar ^a   Sliutz, Gerhard ^a   Hefler, Lukas ^a   Reinthaller, Alexander ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Hysterectomy; Recurrence; Vaginal cuff

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MYOMETRIUM; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

AUSTRIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINA;

EID: 34249298011     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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