Prognostic factors, recurrence, and survival in transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract: A 30-year experience in 252 patients

Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 594-601

  Craig Hall, M ^a   Womack, Sean ^a   Sagalowsky, Arthur I ^a   Carmody, Thomas ^a   Erickstad, Mark D ^a   Roehrborn, Claus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032190119     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00295-7     Document Type: Article

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