Retroperitoneal lymph node resection in patients with cervical cancer

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-83

  Zighelboim, Israel ^a   Ramirez, Pedro T ^b   Gao, Feng ^c   Slomovitz, Brian M ^b   Sun, Charlotte ^b   Frumovitz, Michael ^b   Jhingran, Anuja ^b   Levenback, Charles ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751084110     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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