Is frozen section analysis of pelvic lymph nodes accurate in locally advanced cervical cancer patients administered preoperative chemoradiation?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 220-225

  Ferrandina, Gabriella ^a,b   Fanfani, Francesco ^a   Ludovisi, Manuela ^a   Fagotti, Anna ^b   Carbone, Arnaldo ^c   Zannoni, Gianfranco ^b   Guerriero, Massimiliano ^c   Petrillo, Marco ^b   Scambia, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frozen section analysis; Locally advanced cervical cancer; Preoperative chemoradiation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PACLITAXEL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 37449025424     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.09.034     Document Type: Article

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