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An Orthotopic Endometrial Cancer Model with Retroperitoneal Lymphadenopathy Made From In Vivo Propagated and Cultured VX2 Cells
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Risk factors and treatment of endometrial carcinoma
A Sirjusingh1, B Bassaw, S Roopnarinesingh
1Mount Hope Women's Hospital, Trinidad.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
A twelve-year retrospective study of 54 consecutive cases of endometrial carcinoma revealed that post-menopausal bleeding was the commonest symptom, and the major associated risk factors were obesity and hypertension. Panhysterectomy was the corner-stone of treatment while adjunctive therapy was based on certain prognostic factors and the operator's preference.
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