Limitations of ureteroscopy in diagnosis of invasive upper tract urothelial cancer

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-15

  Igawa, Mikio ^a   Urakami, Shinji ^a   Shiina, Hiroaki ^a   Ishibe, Tomoyuki ^a   Matsubar, Akio ^b   Kadena, Hitoshi ^b   Usui, Tsuguru ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Upper urinary tract; Ureteroscopy; Urothelial cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; URETER CARCINOMA; URETEROSCOPY; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0030053185     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282800     Document Type: Article

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