The role of 3D fusion imaging in sentinel lymphadenectomy for vulvar cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-80

  Beneder, C ^a   Fuechsel, F G ^a   Krause, Th ^a   Kuhn, A ^a   Mueller, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fusion imaging; Sentinel lymphnode detection; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPHADENECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 40949114125     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.11.045     Document Type: Article

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