Vulvar cancer surgery

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-17

  Baiocchi, Glauco ^a   Rocha, Rafael M ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

sentinel node biopsy; surgery; vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; EXCISION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COITUS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84891844800     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000033     Document Type: Review

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