Scalp metastasis in carcinoma of the uterine cervix - A rare entity

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 310-312

  Agarwal, Umber ^a,b   Dahiya, Pushpa ^a   Chauhan, Ashok ^a   Sangwan, Krishna ^a   Purwar, Prashant ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b House No 3   (India)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Cervical cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE ATROPHY; BONE METASTASIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALVARIA; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; OSTEOLYSIS; PELVIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SCALP; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SKIN EDEMA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRASOUND; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0036926763     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.2002.6829     Document Type: Article

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