Impact of radical operative treatment on the quality of life in women with vulvar cancer - A retrospective study

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 875-882

  Gunther V ^a   Malchow, B ^a   Schubert, M ^a   Andresen, L ^a   Jochens, A ^a   Jonat, W ^a   Mundhenke, C ^a   Alkatout, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease free survival; EORTC QLQ C30; Lymphonodectomy; Overall survival; Quality of life; Radical vulvectomy; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INGUINOFEMORAL LYMPHONODECTOMY; INSOMNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOSS OF APPETITE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHONODECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL RESECTION; RADICAL VULVECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOMITING; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WIDE EXCISION;

DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EORTC QLQ-C30; LYMPHONODECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL VULVECTOMY; VULVAR CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVORS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84901494640     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.03.027     Document Type: Article

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