Microvascular invasion in prostate cancer: Prognostic significance in patients treated by radical prostatectomy for clinically localized carcinoma

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-24

  Van den Ouden, Dies ^a   Kranse, Ries ^a   Hop, Wim C J ^b   Van der Kwast, Theo H ^a   Schröder, Fritz H ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microvascular invasion; Pathological variables; Progression; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SEMINAL VESICLE;

AGED; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031953564     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030197     Document Type: Article

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