Lymphadenectomy in endometrial cancer: What's the right question?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Basile, Stefano ^a   Salerno, Maria Giovanna ^a   Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 84860292543     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2012.01.041     Document Type: Letter

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