The significance of lymphadenectomy in transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract

British Journal of Urology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 494-498

  Miyake, H ^a,b   Kara, I ^a   Gohji, K ^a   Arakawa, S ^a   Kamidono, S ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lymph vessel invasion; Lymphadenectomy; Systemic disease; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper urinary tract

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031751424     PISSN: 00071331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.1998.00800.x     Document Type: Article

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