Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting outcome of patients with vulvar cancer

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 672-677

  Rouzier, Roman ^a   Preti, Mario ^b   Haddad, Bassam ^b   Martin, Michel ^b   Micheletti, Leonardo ^b   Paniel, Bernard Jean ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646797056     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000198639.36855.e9     Document Type: Article

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