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 transitional cell carcinoma of the fallopian tube
β Scribed by Ihab Elsokkari; Sarbar Napaki; Sian Greening; Morteza Aghmesheh
- Book ID
- 109007654
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 798 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-8076
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