Letter commenting on "Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oophorectomy (RRSO) in BRCA mutation carriers: Experience with a consecutive series of 111 patients using a standardized surgical-pathological protocol" in Int J Gynecol Cancer 2011;21:846-851 by C. Bethan Powell et al

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-

  Reitsma, Welmoed ^a   Hollema, Harry ^a   Mourits, Marian J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADNEXA DISEASE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; OCCULT CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; PERITONEUM CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; OVARIECTOMY;

EID: 84858274997     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e31822d0e91     Document Type: Letter

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