18.7% of the clinically early-stage EOC patients get upstaged based on surgical staging.• Serous or poorly differentiated EOC tumors have the highest upstaging risk after surgical staging.• The surgical staging steps are frequently tumor positive, but lead less often to upstaging.• This meta-analysis gives insight in the contribution of each surgical staging step.
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