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Figure 2

From: Definition of compartment-based radical surgery in uterine cancer: modified radical hysterectomy in intermediate/high-risk endometrial cancer using peritoneal mesometrial resection (PMMR) by M Höckel translated to robotic surgery

Figure 2

The structures of the female genital tract with reference to the embryologic Müllerian and mesonephric compartment. The accordant structures resected in endometrial cancer are colored dark green for the Müllerian Compartment (a) and blue for the mesonephric lymphatic drainage (b), ovarian and infundibulopelvic system). The parts of the Müllerian compartment that are only resected in stage II or III disease are colored light green. Modified from Höckel[14] and Hepp et al.[15], with permission of Elsevier and Urban & Schwarzenberg, respectively.

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