Relative Morbidity and Mortality of Panniculectomy-Combined Surgical Staging in Endometrial Cancer.

Objective: To examine intraoperative and postoperative complication rates for surgical staging combined with panniculectomy for endometrial cancer.

Methods: A prospectively collected institutional surgical database was used to identify patients with endometrial cancer who underwent hysterectomy-based surgical staging between December 2008 and August 2014 (n = 551). The cases were grouped into surgical staging with panniculectomy (panniculectomy group, n = 11 [2.