Advances in the staging of renal cell carcinoma

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 673-680

  Leung, Albert C ^a   Ghavamian, Reza ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Nephron sparing; Renal cell carcinoma; Robson; Staging; Surgery; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADRENALECTOMY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY SURGERY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METASTASIS; NEPHRON; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; KIDNEY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRONS;

EID: 0036904017     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.2.6.673     Document Type: Review

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