Treatment of extramammary Paget disease of the vulva with imiquimod: A retrospective, multicenter study by the German Colposcopy Network

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 644-650

  Luyten, Alexander ^a   Sörgel, Philipp ^b   Clad, Andreas ^c   Gieseking, Friederike ^d   Maass Poppenhusen, Karin ^e   Lellé, Ralph J ^f   Harter, Philipp ^g   Buttmann, Nina ^h   Petry, Karl Ulrich ^a  

^a Klinikum der Stadt Wolfsburg   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

^h ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

clinical response; extramammary Paget disease of the vulva; imiquimod; tissue sparing surgery; treatment of recurrences

Indexed keywords

IMIQUIMOD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; VULVA CARCINOMA;

CLINICAL RESPONSE; EXTRAMAMMARY PAGET DISEASE OF THE VULVA; IMIQUIMOD; TISSUE-SPARING SURGERY; TREATMENT OF RECURRENCES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOQUINOLINES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAGET DISEASE, EXTRAMAMMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84896099525     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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