Primary lymphatic metastatic spread in testicular cancer occurs ventral to the lumbar vessels

Urology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 114-118

  Holtl L ^a   Peschel, R ^a   Knapp, R ^d   Janetschek, G ^c   Steiner, H ^a   Hittmair, A ^b   Rogatsch, H ^b   Bartsch, G ^a   Hobisch, A ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d Hospital of Kufstein   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LUMBAR SPINE; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS CANCER;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036144472     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(01)01456-X     Document Type: Article

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