To what extent should para-aortic lymphadenectomy be carried out for surgically staged endometrial cancer?

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-610

  Dogan, Nasuh Utku ^a   Gungor, Tayfun ^a   Karsli, Fatih ^a   Ozgu, Emre ^a   Besli, Mustafa ^a  

^a Gynecologic Oncology Unit   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Inferior mesenteric artery; Para aortic lymphadenectomy; Surgical staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARA AORTIC LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, SEROUS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MESENTERIC ARTERY, INFERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 84863696772     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e3182434adb     Document Type: Article

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