A prospective blinded comparison of the accuracy of transvaginal sonography and frozen section in the assessment of myometrial invasion in endometrial cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 549-552

  Savelli, Luca ^a   Testa, Antonia Carla ^b   Mabrouk, Mohamed ^a   Zannoni, Letizia ^a   Ludovisi, Manuela ^b   Seracchioli, Renato ^a   Scambia, Giovanni ^b   De Iaco, Pierandrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endometrial cancer; Frozen section; Staging; Transvaginal sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACCURACY; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOSARCOMA; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED TUMOR; MYOMETRIUM; OVARIECTOMY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84856699046     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.11.016     Document Type: Article

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