A survey of hospital management practices for vulvar melanoma

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 670-675

  Creasman, William T ^a   Phillips, Jerri Linn ^b   Menck, Herman R ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VULVA CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033036105     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(99)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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