Radiation therapy compared with pelvic node resection for node-positive vulvar cancer: A randomized controlled trial

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 537-546

  Kunos, Charles ^b   Simpkins, Fiona ^a   Gibbons, Heidi ^c   Tian, Chunqiao ^c   Homesley, Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SKIN EXFOLIATION; STROKE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549111118     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181b12f99     Document Type: Article

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