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Vulvar cancer is a rare malignancy, which accounts for about 4 % of female genital cancers. The average age of women diagnosed with invasive vulvar cancer is 70 years, but it is occurring with increasing frequency in younger women (<50 years of age), particularly those exposed to human papillomavirus (HPV).

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  1. Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Weining Ma MD

  2. Department of Radiology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Diagnostic Radiology, 520 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA

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Ma, W. (2014). Vulvar Cancer. In: Akin, O. (eds) Atlas of Gynecologic Oncology Imaging. Atlas of Oncology Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7212-4_5

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