Initial experience with videoscopic inguinal lymphadenectomy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 977-982

  Delman, Keith A ^a,b   Kooby, David A ^a   Rizzo, Monica ^a   Ogan, Kenneth ^b   Master, Viraj ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; SEROMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VIDEOSCOPIC INGUINAL LYMPHADENECTOMY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955852768     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1490-5     Document Type: Article

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