The risk of squamous cell carcinoma in persistent vulvar ulcers

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1067-1071

  Spencer, Ryan J ^a   Young, Robert H ^b   Goodman, Annekathryn ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Squamous cell carcinoma; Ulcer; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EARLY CANCER; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELANOMA; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PERSISTENT VULVA ULCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIGMENT DISORDER; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; VULVA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; ULCER; VULVAR DISEASES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053273213     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3182175a68     Document Type: Review

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