Intra-operative frozen section results reliably predict final pathology in endometrial cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 499-505

  Stephan, Jean Marie ^a   Hansen, Jean ^a   Samuelson, Megan ^a   McDonald, Megan ^a   Chin, Yenna ^a   Bender, David ^a   Reyes, Henry D ^a   Button, Anna ^a   Goodheart, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Frozen section; Lymph node dissection

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPLEX ATYPICAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR INVASION;

ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; FROZEN SECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PELVIS;

EID: 84901648475     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.03.569     Document Type: Article

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