Renal cell carcinoma with extension of tumor thrombus into the vena cava: Surgical strategy and prognosis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 789-796

  Tsuji, Yoshihiko ^a   Goto, Akinobu ^a   Hara, Isao ^a   Ataka, Keiji ^a   Yamashita, Chojiro ^a   Okita, Yutaka ^a   Kamidono, Sadao ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEPHRECTOMY; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0035319380     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.111996     Document Type: Article

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