A literature overview of primary cervical malignant melanoma: An exceedingly rare cancer

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-195

  Pusceddu, Sara ^a   Bajetta, Emilio ^a   Carcangiu, Maria Luisa ^a   Formisano, Barbara ^a   Ducceschi, Monika ^a   Buzzoni, Roberto ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervix; Diagnosis; Malignant melanoma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; MELANIN; VINBLASTINE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY CERVICAL MALIGNANT MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SUN EXPOSURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINECTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856208931     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: 18790461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2011.03.008     Document Type: Review

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