Upper-tract transitional cell carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-329

  Tawfiek, Ehab R ^a   Bagley, Demetrius H ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UROTHELIUM;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 0030766308     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00230-6     Document Type: Review

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