Vulvar cancer in young women: demographic features and outcome evaluation

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 200, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 645.e1-645.e5

  Lanneau, Grainger S ^a   Argenta, Peter A ^b   Lanneau, Marion S ^a   Riffenburgh, Robert H ^a   Gold, Michael A ^a   McMeekin, D Scott ^a   Webster, Nancy ^b   Judson, Patricia L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Gynecologic Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic; outcome; vulvar cancer; young

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349282349     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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