Improved management of abdominal undescended testicular tumors with bulky confluent retroperitoneal nodal metastases

Journal of Urology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1341-1344

  Kulkarni, Jagdeesh N ^a   Desai, Samir M ^a   Phadke, Girish K ^a   Tongaonkar, Hemant B ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

cryptorchism; germ cells; testicular neoplasms

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SEMINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029818826     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)65582-4     Document Type: Article

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