Intraoperative frozen section is essential for assessment of myometrial invasion but not for histologic grade confirmation in endometrial cancer: A ten-year experience

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1415-1419

  Ozturk, Ebru ^a   Dikensoy, Ebru ^a   Balat, Ozcan ^a   Ugur, Mete Gurol ^a   Aydin, Abdullah ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endometrial biopsy; Endometrial cancer; Intraoperative frozen section; Transvaginal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE FROZEN SECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIAL METASTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS CANCER; UTERUS SURGERY; ADULT; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYOMETRIUM; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS;

CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM GRADING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84862775349     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-2135-z     Document Type: Article

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