Small-cell carcinoma of the uterus and the vagina: Experience with ten patients

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 271, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 316-319

  Petru, Edgar ^a   Pasterk, C ^b   Reich, O ^a   Obermair, A ^b   Winter, R ^a   Breitenecker, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Neuroendocrine carcinoma; Small cell carcinoma; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; PROGNOSIS; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CARCINOMA; VAGINA CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18744398146     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-004-0630-1     Document Type: Article

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