Does the use of a uterine manipulator with an intrauterine balloon in total laparoscopic hysterectomy facilitate tumor cell spillage into the peritoneal cavity in patients with endometrial cancer?

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1145-1149

  Lim, S ^a   Kim, H S ^b   Lee, K B ^a,c   Yoo, C W ^a   Park, S Y ^a   Seo, S S ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cytology; Endometrial cancer; Uterine manipulator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 51749090004     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2007.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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