Vulvar carcinoma associated with lichen sclerosus: Experience at the Florence, Italy, Vulvar Clinic

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 313-318

  Carli, Paolo ^a   De Magnis, Angelina ^b   Mannone, Francesca ^b   Botti, Elena ^b   Taddei, Gianluigi ^b   Cattaneo, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lichen sclerosus; Papillomavirus, human; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXOPHITIC TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKERATOSIS; ITALY; LABIUM MAJUS; LABIUM MINUS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN CANCER; SKIN ULCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VAGINA; VAGINA VESTIBULE; VITILIGO; VULVA; VULVA CARCINOMA; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037905074     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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