Challenging dogma: Radical conservation surgery for early stage cervical cancer in order to retain fertility

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-187

  Shepherd, John H ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Fertility sparing surgery; Radical vaginal trachelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; NEOPLASM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 67649386801     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588409X392108     Document Type: Article

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