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ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2014

Feasibility and safety of laparoscopic surgery for obese Korean women with endometrial cancer: long-term results at a single institution.

Min-Hyun Baek, Shin-Wha Lee, Jeong-Yeol Park, Daeyeon Kim, Jong-Hyeok Kim, Yong-Man Kim, Young-Tak Kim, Joo-Hyun Nam

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Article in Journal of Korean medical science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. ESGO/ESTRO/ESP Guidelines for the management of patients with endometrial carcinoma.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2021
    Guideline
  2. Review
  3. Perioperative and long-term outcomes of laparoscopy and laparotomy for endometrial carcinoma.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015
    Article
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Min-Hyun BaekDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0423-9038
Shin-Wha LeeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Jeong-Yeol ParkDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2475-7123
Daeyeon KimDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8068-3475
Jong-Hyeok KimDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Yong-Man KimDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Young-Tak KimDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Joo-Hyun NamDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Ulsan College · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical feasibility of and survival outcome after laparoscopy in obese Korean women with endometrial cancer which has recently been increasing. We reviewed the medical records of the patients treated at our medical institution between 1999 and 2012. The patients were divided into three groups, non-obese (Body Mass Index [BMI]<25.0), overweight (BMI 25-27.99), and obese (BMI≥28.0). These patient groups were compared in terms of their clinical characteristics, treatment methods, as well as surgical and survival outcomes. In total, 55 of the 278 eligible patients were obese women. There were no differences in the three groups in terms of the proportion of patients who underwent lymphadenectomy, their cancer stage, histologic type, type of adjuvant treatment administered, intra-, post-operative, and long-term complications, operative time, number of removed lymph nodes, blood loss, and duration of hospitalization (P=0.067, 0.435, 0.757, 0.739, 0.458, 0.173, 0.076, 0.124, 0.770, 0.739, and 0.831, respectively). The Disease-Free Survival (DFS) times were 139.1 vs. 121.6 vs. 135.5 months (P=0.313), and the Overall Survival (OS) times were 145.2 vs. 124.8 vs. 139.5 months (P=0.436) for each group, respectively. Obese women with endometrial cancer can, therefore, be as safely managed using laparoscopy as women with normal BMIs.

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AdultAgedBody Mass IndexDisease-Free SurvivalEndometrial NeoplasmsFemaleHumansHysterectomyLength of StayLymph Node ExcisionMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm StagingObesityRepublic of KoreaRetrospective StudiesEndometrial NeoplasmsLaparoscopyObesitySurgical OutcomeSurvival Outcome

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PMCPMC4234922
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