Routine computerized tomography scanning, groin ultrasound with or without fine needle aspiration cytology in the surgical management of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 312-317

  Land, R ^a   Herod, J ^a   Moskovic, E ^a   King, M ^a   Sohaib, S A ^a   Trott, P ^a   Nasiri, N ^a   Shepherd, J H ^a   Bridges, J E ^a   Ind, T E J ^a   Blake, P ^a   Barton, D P J ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Groin imaging; Ultrasound; Vulval carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INGUINAL REGION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VULVA; VULVA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROIN; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645363010     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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