Diagnosis and treatment options of vulvar cancer: A review

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 183-193

  Dittmer, C ^a   Fischer, D ^a   Diedrich, K ^a   Thill, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

En bloc resection; Sentinel node biopsy; Triple incision; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLINS TEST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EN BLOC RESECTION; ENDOSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 33; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 39; INCISION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TRIPLE INCISION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WART VIRUS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VULVA TUMOR;

CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860786765     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-2057-9     Document Type: Review

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