The forgotten fallopian tube

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Dietl, Johannes ^a   Wischhusen, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GRADING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LETTER; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALPINGECTOMY; UTERINE TUBE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; NOTE; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SALPINGECTOMY;

EID: 79952027857     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2946-c1     Document Type: Letter

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