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Laparoscopic Reoperative Surgery for Incompletely Staged Gynecologic Malignancies

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Despite published recommendations for gynecologic oncology consultation in patients with endometrial cancer or suspicious adnexal masses, patients still undergo surgical evaluation for these conditions in settings where surgical staging is either not immediately available or not performed.1 In addition, although recent Pap smear evaluation is a standard prerequisite for hysterectomy, this operation is occasionally performed either in the absence of recent cervical cytologic evaluation or in the context of false-negative cervical cytologic evaluation or known cervical dysplasia, leading to the discovery of occult cervical cancer on pathologic evaluation of the uterus.

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Veljovich, D.S. (2009). Laparoscopic Reoperative Surgery for Incompletely Staged Gynecologic Malignancies. In: Billingham, R., Kobashi, K., Peters, W. (eds) Reoperative Pelvic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b14187_5

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