Characteristics of sentinel lymph nodes' metastatic involvement in early stage of vulvar cancer

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 672-676

  Procházka, Martin ^a   Klát, Jaroslav ^a   ŠevČÍk, Libor ^a   Šimetka, Ondřej ^a   Gráf, Petar ^a   Waloschek, Tomáš ^b   Kraft, Otakar ^c   Jaluvková, Zdena ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Pathology ^*

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Micrometastases; Sentinel lymph node; Surgery; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73449140147     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2009.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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