Ontogenetic anatomy of the distal vagina: Relevance for local tumor spread and implications for cancer surgery

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-318

  Höckel, Michael ^a   Horn, Lars Christian ^a   Illig, Romana ^b   Dornhöfer, Nadja ^a   Fritsch, Helga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer surgery; Embryology; Female urethra; Local tumor spread; Surgical anatomy; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; DISTAL VAGINA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FETUS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCAL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA; UROGENITAL SINUS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA; VAGINA CARCINOMA; VULVA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRA; VAGINA; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79960466550     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.04.040     Document Type: Article

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