The age adjusted death rate for ovarian cancer has remained unchanged for the past 20 years. Recent data obtained by staging ovarian cancer patients with lymphangiography and peritoneoscopy demonstrated that many patients with apparently localized disease actually have occult dissemination within th
Ovarian carcinoma.Advances in diagnosis, staging, and treatment
โ Scribed by Hervy E. Averette; Daniel M. Donato
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 648 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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