Surveillance following radical or partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-18

  Lam, John S ^b   Leppert, John T ^b   Figlin, Robert A ^b   Belldegrun, Arie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Metastatic Recurrence; Partial Nephrectomy; Radical Nephrectomy; Renal Cell Carcinoma; Surveillance Protocol

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEPHRECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 16644387553     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-005-0062-x     Document Type: Article

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