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Surgical Principles of Endometrial Cancer

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Worldwide, endometrial cancer (EC) is the sixth most common malignant disorder with approximately 290,000 new cases annually. In Europe it is the fourth common woman cancer in terms of incidence [1].

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  1. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Bichat University Hospital, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

    Anne Gauthier & Martin Koskas

  2. Department of Oncology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Martin Koskas & Frederic Amant

  3. Center for Gynecologic Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute and Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frederic Amant

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Gauthier, A., Koskas, M., Amant, F. (2020). Surgical Principles of Endometrial Cancer. In: Mirza, M. (eds) Management of Endometrial Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64513-1_10

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