Margin distance and other clinico-pathologic prognostic factors in vulvar carcinoma: A multivariate analysis

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 636-641

  Chan, John K ^a   Sugiyama, Valerie ^b   Pham, Huyen ^b   Gu, Mai ^c   Rutgers, Joanne ^e   Osann, Kathryn ^d   Cheung, Michael K ^a   Berman, Michael L ^b   DiSaia, Philip J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Laboratory Medicine

^d Division of Hematology/Oncology

^e LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Margin distance; Prognostic factors; Surgery; Vulvar carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENCE RISK; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846925340     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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