The impact of surgical guidelines and periodic quality assessment on the staging of endometrial cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-64

  Bakkum Gamez, Jamie N ^a   Mariani, Andrea ^a   Dowdy, Sean C ^a   Weaver, Amy L ^a   McGree, Michaela E ^a   Cliby, William A ^a   Gostout, Bobbie S ^a   Stanhope, C Robert ^a   Wilson, Timothy O ^a   Podratz, Karl C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Lymph node dissection; Neoplasm staging; Practice guidelines as topic; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXCISION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SURGICAL RISK;

AGED; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80052595675     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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