Histology and clinical outcomes in patients with bilateral testicular germ cell tumors: The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center experience 1950 to 2001

Journal of Urology

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2122-2125

  Holzbeierlein, Jeffrey M ^b   Sogani, Pramod C ^b   Sheinfeld, Joel ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Germinoma; Neoplasms, multiple primary; Neoplasms, second primary; Testicular neoplasms; Testis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND CANCER; SEMINOMA;

EID: 0038287466     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000067462.24562.8b     Document Type: Article

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