The assessment and surgical management of early-stage vulvar cancer

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 557-569

  Gotlieb, Walter H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Local excision; Lymphadenectomy; Micrometastasis; Radical excision; Sentinel node; Vulvar neoplasm

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABSCESS; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT PLANNING; VULVA CANCER; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

EID: 0141495957     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6934(03)00066-X     Document Type: Review

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