Impact of tumor-associated symptoms on the prognosis of patients with renal cell carcinoma: A single-center experience of 683 patients

Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1024-1028

  Schips, Luigi ^b   Lipsky, Katja ^b   Zigeuner, Richard ^a   Salfellner, Michael ^b   Winkler, Susanne ^b   Langner, Cord ^b   Rehak, Peter ^b   Pummer, Karl ^b   Hubmer, Gerhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0344665774     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00763-5     Document Type: Article

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