A multivariate analysis of blood vessel and lymph vessel invasion as predictors of ovarian and lymph node metastases in patients with cervical carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2578-2583

  Sakuragi, Noriaki ^a   Takeda, Naoki ^a   Hareyama, Hitoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Toshio ^a   Todo, Yukiharu ^a   Okamoto, Kazuhira ^a   Takeda, Mahito ^a   Wada, Shin Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Ritsu ^a   Fujimoto, Seiichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood vessel invasion; Cervical carcinoma; Lymph node metastasis; Lymph vessel invasion; Ovarian metastasis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034213977     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20000601)88:11<2578::AID-CNCR21>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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