Endometrial cancer in premenopausal women 45 years and younger

To evaluate the experience with endometrial carcinoma in women 45 years or younger at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia. We evaluated the clinical history, morphology, treatment, and follow-up of 17 premenopausal women 45 years or younger who had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer....

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Veröffentlicht in:Obstetrics and gynecology (New York. 1953) 1995-04, Vol.85 (4), p.504-508
Hauptverfasser: Gitsch, Gerald, Hanzal, Engelbert, Jensen, Debra, Hacker, Neville F.
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Zusammenfassung:To evaluate the experience with endometrial carcinoma in women 45 years or younger at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia. We evaluated the clinical history, morphology, treatment, and follow-up of 17 premenopausal women 45 years or younger who had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer. All histopathology was reviewed. Sixteen patients received their primary treatment at the Royal Hospital for Women, and one was referred with recurrent disease. Synchronous ovarian malignancies were found in five of 17 cases (29.4%), compared with 11 of 237 (4.6%) women older than 45 ( P
ISSN:0029-7844
1873-233X
DOI:10.1016/0029-7844(95)00001-8