Advances in surgical treatment of cervical cancer

Women's Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-256

  Chan, Karen K L ^a   Naik, Raj ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Coelio Schauta procedure; Continence pouch; Laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection; Nerve sparing hysterectomy; Parametrectomy; Pelvic exenteration; Radical hystetectomy; Radical trachelectomy; Sentinel lymph nodes; Total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLADDER INJURY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OVARY FUNCTION; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RECURRENT CANCER; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

FEMALE; FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44649154614     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.4.3.245     Document Type: Review

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