Intraoperative gross assessment of myometrial invasion and cervical involvement in endometrial cancer: Role of tumor grade and size

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-520

  Fotiou, Stelios ^a   Vlahos, Nikos ^a   Kondi Pafiti, Agatha ^a   Zarganis, Petros ^a   Papakonstantinou, Katerina ^a   Creatsas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cervical involvement; Endometrial cancer; Gross examination; Myometrial invasion; Tumor grade; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MYOMETRIUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 60449097317     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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