Challenging the concept of microinvasive carcinoma of the vulva: Report of a case with regional lymph node recurrence and review of the literature

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sidor, Jutta ^a   Diallo Danebrock, Raihana ^b   Eltze, Elke ^c   Lellé, Ralph J ^c  

^a St Joseph Hospital   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MORBIDITY; RELIABILITY; SKIN INDURATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746147411     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-157     Document Type: Article

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