Laparoscopic para-aortic lymphadenectomy and positron emission tomography scan as staging procedures in patients with cervical carcinoma stage IB2-IIIB

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 723-729

  Mortier, D G ^a   Stroobants, S ^a   Amant, F ^a   Neven, P ^a   Van Limbergen, E ^a   Vergote, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cervical neoplasms; Endoscopy; Laparoscopy; PET; Staging

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MORBIDITY; PARAAORTIC LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSPERITONEAL SURGERY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47649087116     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2007.01061.x     Document Type: Article

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