Is it safe to treat endometrial carcinoma endoscopically?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 5305-5307

  Vergote, Ignace ^a   Amant, Frederic ^a   Neven, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ALLOPATHY; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; CANCER STAGING; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73949093151     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.23.9822     Document Type: Editorial

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