The impact of pretreatment staging laparotomy on survival in locally advanced cervical carcinoma

European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 90-93

  Holcomb, Kevin ^a,b   Abulafia, O ^a   Matthews, R P ^a   Gabbur, N ^a   Lee, Y C ^a   Buhl, A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Box 24 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical carcinoma; Surgical staging; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033033335     PISSN: 03922936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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