The Natural History of Incidentally Detected Small Renal Masses

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 738-745

  Volpe, Alessandro ^a   Panzarella, Tony ^b   Rendon, Ricardo A ^c   Haider, Masoom A ^d   Kondylis, Filippos I ^a   Jewett, Michael A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Follow up studies; Kidney; Natural history; Renal cell carcinoma; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0842325657     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20025     Document Type: Article

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