Retroperitoneal laparoscopic lymph node dissection for staging non-seminomatous germ cell tumors before and after chemotherapy

Lymphology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-44

  Rassweiler, J J ^a,b   Henkel, T O ^a   Stock, C ^a   Seemann, O ^a   Frede, T ^a   Alken, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Stadtkrankenhaus Heilbronn ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029916281     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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