Lower uterine segment involvement as a predictor for lymph node spread in endometrial carcinoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-78

  Madom, L M ^a   Brown, A K ^a   Lui, F ^a   Moore, R G ^a   Granai, C O ^a   Disilvestro, P A ^a  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Lower uterine segment; Lymph node spread; Uterine cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE TEST; DECISION MAKING; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FISHER EXACT TEST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34648829063     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.026     Document Type: Article

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