Para-aortic lymph node recurrence in patients with cervical cancer treated with postoperative irradiation to the pelvis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3 C, 1997, Pages 2265-2268

  Takahashi, Mitsuhiro ^a   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a   Hayakawa, Kazushige ^a   Niibe, Hideo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Paraaortic lymph node recurrence; Postoperative irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030744828     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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