Implications of prostate micrometastases in pelvic lymph nodes: An archival tissue study

Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 370-375

  Edelstein, Robert A ^a   Zietman, Anthony L ^a   De Las Morenas, Antonio ^a   Krane, Robert J ^a   Babayan, Richard K ^a   Dallow, Katherine C ^a   Traish, Abdulmaged ^a   Moreland, Robert B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029875005     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(99)80455-5     Document Type: Article

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