Value of Multilevel Sectioning for Improved Detection of Micrometastases in Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Vulva

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2 C, 2004, Pages 1281-1286

  Hakam, A ^a   Nasir, A ^a   Raghuwanshi, R ^a   Smith, P V ^a   Crawley, S ^a   Kaiser, H E ^b   Grendys, E ^a   Fiorica, J F ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Intl Soc Stud Compar Oncol   (United States)

Author keywords

Micrometastases; Multilevel sectioning; Sentinel lymph node; Squamous cell carcinoma; Vulva cancer

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 1; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR VOLUME; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2442451647     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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