Relationship of margin status and radiation dose to recurrence in post-operative vulvar carcinoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 545-549

  Viswanathan, Akila N ^a   Pinto, Alvaro P ^b   Schultz, Delray ^c   Berkowitz, Ross ^b   Crum, Christopher P ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Margin status; Radiotherapy; Vulvar neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY; WIDE EXCISION;

MARGIN STATUS; RADIOTHERAPY; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84882455540     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.05.036     Document Type: Article

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