Sentinel node dissection is safe in the treatment of early-stage vulvar cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 884-889

  Van Der Zee, Ate G J ^a   Oonk, Maaike H ^b   De Hullu, Joanne A ^b   Ansink, Anca C ^b   Vergote, Ignace ^b   Verheijen, René H ^b   Maggioni, Angelo ^b   Gaarenstroom, Katja N ^b   Baldwin, Peter J ^b   Van Dorst, Eleonore B ^b   Van Der Velden, Jacobus ^b   Hermans, Ralph H ^b   Van Der Putten, Hans ^b   Drouin, Pierre ^b   Schneider, Achim ^b   Sluiter, Wim J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYSIPELAS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VULVA CANCER; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; INGUINAL REGION; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VULVA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39749160653     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.14.0566     Document Type: Article

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