Pelvic lymph node dissection can be curative in patients with node positive bladder cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 449-454

  Vieweg, Johannes ^b   Gschwend, Jürgen E ^b   Herr, Harry W ^b   Fair, William R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bladder neoplasms, survival; Lymph node excision, lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033072817     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)61921-9     Document Type: Article

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