Vascular interventions during post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph-node dissection for metastatic testis cancer

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 292-297

  Christmas, Timothy J ^a   Smith, Gillian L ^a   Kooner, Raji ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Lymph node excision; Post operative complications; Retroperitoneal neoplasms; Surgery; Testicular neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON FISTULA; COLON OBSTRUCTION; FEMORAL VEIN; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS TUMOR; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031664284     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0748-7983(98)80009-7     Document Type: Article

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