Detection of sentinel lymph nodes with lymphazurin in cervical, uterine, and vulvar malignancies

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 204-208

  Echt, Margaret L ^b   Finan, Michael A ^b,c   Hoffman, Mitchel S ^a   Kline, Richard C ^b   Roberts, William S ^a   Fiorica, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; DISULFINE BLUE; DYE; ISOSULFAN BLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAUTERINE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

EID: 0032935764     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199902000-00008     Document Type: Article

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