Should direct ipsilateral adrenal invasion from renal cell carcinoma be classified as pT3a?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 918-921

  Thompson, R Houston ^a,b   Leibovich, Bradley C ^a   Cheville, John C ^a   Lohse, Christine M ^a   Frank, Igor ^a   Kwon, Eugene D ^a   Zincke, Horst ^a   Blute, Michael L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Carcinoma; Kidney neoplasms; Renal cell; neoplasm staging

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 13744258736     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000153419.98715.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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