Among patients with cancer of the uterine adnexa in the 3 Danish Radium Centres, 38 were found to have tubal cancer. The diagnosis is di5cult; the most important factor in early recognition is to bear in mind the possibility of tubal cancer when dealing with patients in the high-incidence age group.
Carcinoma of the fallopian tube: Management and sites of failure
โ Scribed by Earlene H. McMurray; Allan J. Jacobs; Carlos A. Perez; H. Marvin Camel; Ming-Shian Kao; Andrew Galakatos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 544 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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