Should preoperative pathology be used to select patients for surgical staging in endometrial cancer?
Preoperative biopsy has only a moderate ability to predict final pathology in endometrial cancer, and therefore, additional factors should be considered in selecting patients for a surgical staging procedure.
An attenuated glucocorticoid surge characterizes the reduced stress response experienced by patients undergoing EVAR compared with open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. A reduction in the occurrence of SIRS is a feature of a more favorable postoperative course after an endovascular approach.