Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the urinary bladder: 3 case reports

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-54

  Sejima, Takehiro ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder carcinoma; Sarcomatoid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

EID: 0032809992     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030357     Document Type: Article

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