Vulvar cancer: Prognostic factors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2311-2317

  Nicoletto, Maria Ornella ^a   Parenti, Anna ^b   Del Bianco, Paola ^a   Lombardi, Giuseppe ^a   Pedrini, Lucia ^a   Pizzi, Sara ^b   Carli, Paolo ^a   Della Palma, Maurizia ^a   Pastorelli, Davide ^a   Corti, Luigi ^a   Becagli, Leopoldo ^b  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pathological factors; Recurrence; Surgical treatment; Thrombosis; Vulvar carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOSIS; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77955085105     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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