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.
Primary leiomyosarcoma of the fallopian tube
β Scribed by Taeko Ueda; Makoto Emoto; Miyoko Fukuoka; Daisuke Miyahara; Shinji Horiuchi; Hiroshi Tsujioka; Tatsuhiko Kawarabayashi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 311 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-9625
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