Use and benefits of laparoscopic hysterectomy for stage I endometrial cancer among medicare beneficiaries

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wright, Jason D ^a   Neugut, Alfred I ^a   Wilde, Elizabeth T ^a   Buono, Donna L ^a   Tsai, Wei Yann ^a   Hershman, Dawn L ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABSCESS; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLADDER INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; ILEUS; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIVATE PRACTICE; REIMBURSEMENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URETER INJURY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEER PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872875311     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2011.000484     Document Type: Article

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