The role of frozen section in surgical staging of low risk endometrial cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Sanjeev ^a,b   Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna ^b   Semaan, Assaad ^b   Shah, Jay P ^c   Mahdi, Haider ^d   Morris, Robert ^b   Munkarah, Adnan ^e   Ali Fehmi, Rouba ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Division of Gynecologic Oncology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; LYMPH VESSEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; PATHOLOGY; RISK; UTERINE CERVIX; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVIX UTERI; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARAFFIN; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052344470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021912     Document Type: Article

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