Treatment outcome of patients with carcinoma of vulva: Experience from a tertiary cancer center of India

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 503-507

  Sharma, Daya Nand ^a   Rath, Goura Kisor ^a   Kumar, Sunesh ^a   Bhatla, Neerja ^a   Julka, Parmod Kumar ^a   Sahai, Puja ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; retrospective analysis; vulvar carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LOCAL EXCISION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TOXICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79952395290     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.77090     Document Type: Article

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