A review of complications associated with the surgical treatment of vulvar cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 467-479

  Wills, Angela ^a   Obermair, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications; Inguino femoral lymphadenectomy; Morbidity; Prevention; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYSTOCELE; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INGUINAL REGION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOCELE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VULVA; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

COMPLICATIONS; INGUINO-FEMORAL LYMPHADENECTOMY; MORBIDITY; PREVENTION; VULVAR CANCER;

FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84886085648     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.07.082     Document Type: Review

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