Current management of early vulvar cancer

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 688-692

  Hacker, Neville F ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

Stage I vulvar cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VULVA; VULVA TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032150737     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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