Do surgical techniques used in groin lymphadenectomy for vulval cancer affect morbidity rates?

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1495-1499

  Walker, Kate F ^a   Day, Honor ^b   Abu, Jafaru ^c   Nunns, David ^c   Williamson, Karin ^c   Duncan, Tim ^d  

^a ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ALBERT EDWARD INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Groin node dissection; Lymphedema; Suction drainage; Surgical morbidity; Vulval cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SURGERY; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INGUINAL REGION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VULVA CANCER; WOUND CLOSURE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SUCTION; SUTURE; VULVA TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; SUTURES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857463696     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e318228f314     Document Type: Article

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