Acta Médica Portuguesa (Mar 1999)

Carcinoma do pénis. Princípios básicos de orientação diagnóstica e terapêutica.

  • J A Vilhena-Ayres

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.2118
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1-3

Abstract

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Despite the low incidence of penile cancer nowadays, this tumor presents a difficult diagnosis and staging methodology as well as difficult therapeutic options. The author emphasises the clear destruction between superficial and invasive neoplasms. In the latter, the simultaneous treatment of the lymphatic territories is considered of extreme importance.