Adrenalectomy: Defining its role in the surgical treatment of renal cell carcinoma

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-367

  De Sio, Marco ^a   Autorino, Riccardo ^a,c   Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe ^b   Damiano, Rocco ^a   Cosentino, Luca ^a   De Placido, Sabino ^b   D'Armiento, Massimo ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Carcinoma, renal cell; Conservative surgery

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0344197076     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074086     Document Type: Article

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