Surgery for vulvar cancer

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 869-878

  Rouzier, R ^a,b   Haddad, B ^a   Atallah, D ^c   Dubois, P ^a   Paniel, B J ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GROIN; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 29544441002     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.grf.0000179667.76068.7f     Document Type: Review

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