The value of laparoscopic surgery to stage gynecological cancers: Present and future

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-337

  Mettler, L ^a,b   Meinhold Heerlein, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometrial neoplasms; Hysterectomy; Laparoscopy; Ovarian neoplasms; Uterine cervical neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OVARY CANCER; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS EXENTERATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72249097702     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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