To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

+ Serous  + Carcinoma
Translated: require Serous, require Carcinoma

Finds "Serous Carcinoma" and "Serous and Endometrioid Carcinoma".
Does not find the lowercase "serous carcinoma", nor the abbreviated "Ser Carc".

- Serous  + carcinoma
Translated: forbid Serous, require carcinoma

Finds "Endometrioid carcinoma", and lowercase "carcinoma".
Does not find "Serous" nor "Serous Carcinoma".

or Serous  and Carcinoma
Translated: prefer Serous, require Carcinoma

Finds "Endometrioid Carcinoma" and "Serous Carcinoma"
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

"Serous Carcinoma"
Translated: require the phrase "Serous Carcinoma"

Finds "Serous Carcinoma".
Does not find "serous carcinoma" nor "Serous the Carcinoma".

and Peritoneal and Carcinoma*
Translated: require Peritoneal (case insensitive), require words starting with "Carcinoma"

Finds "Peritoneal Carcinoma" and  "Peritoneal Carcinomatosis"
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Where is Adeno*?
Translated: ignores common words like where and  is  - requires words containing "Adeno"

Finds "Adeno", "Adenocarcinoma", and "Adenoma".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *Adeno*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive.  A search on "serous" will match "Serous", "SEROUS", and "serouS", while the term "SEROUS" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.