Classification and staging of endometrial sarcomas: One disease or two different tumor types?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Prat, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSARCOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOSARCOMA; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL TUMOR; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MIXED TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS SARCOMA;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA;

EID: 77953239861     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2010.05.003     Document Type: Editorial

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