Is microstaging of early invasive cancer of the urinary bladder possible or useful?

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1035-1039

  Platz, Charles E ^a   Cohen, Michael B ^a   Jones, Michael P ^b   Olson, Daniel B ^b   Lynch, Charles F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Muscularis mucosae; Stage; Survival; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

HUMANS; IOWA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029852677     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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