Current Role of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Testicular Cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 717-729

  Steele, Graeme S ^a,b   Richie, Jerome P ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Harvard Prog Urol (Longwood Area)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROPERITONEUM; REVIEW; TESTIS TUMOR;

FERTILITY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031136714     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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