Localized renal cell carcinoma

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 447-455

  Russo, Paul ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy; Partial Nephrectomy; Radical Nephrectomy; Renal Cell Carcinoma; Renal Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENETICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035496045     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: 15346277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-001-0050-4     Document Type: Article

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