Treatment of early endometrial carcinoma: is less more?

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9658, 2009, Pages 97-99

  Höckel, Michael ^a   Dornhöfer, Nadja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; METASTASIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 58149202118     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61768-7     Document Type: Note

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