Inguinal sentinel lymph node dissection vs. complete inguinal lymph node dissection in patients with vulvar cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1 B, 2008, Pages 515-517

  Hefler, Lukas A ^a   Grimm, Christoph ^a   Six, Lucia ^a   Seebacher, Veronika ^a   Polterauer, Stephan ^a   Joura, Elmar ^a   Tempfer, Clemens ^a   Sliutz, Gerhard ^a   Reinthaller, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Postoperative morbidity; Prognosis; Sentinel; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SEROMA; VULVA CANCER; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40549084641     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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