Fertility-sparing treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.
Ovarian malignancies in reproductive age women often provide the physician and patient with a management dilemma. Many investigators have proposed conservative management in early-stage disease. This article provides evidence supporting fertility-sparing management in young women with early ovarian malignancies.
McHale
M T
MT
University of California-Irvine Medical Center, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orange 92668, USA.
DiSaia
P J
PJ
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