Multiinstitutional European validation of the 2002 TNM staging system in conventional and papillary localized renal cell carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 968-974

  Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a,h   Schips, Luigi ^b   Guillè, François ^c   Li, Guorong ^d   De La Taille, Alexandre ^e   Galetti, Tommaso Prayer ^f   Cindolo, Luca ^g   Novara, Giacomo ^a   Zigeuner, Richard E ^b   Bratti, Emiliano ^f   Tostain, Jacques ^d   Altieri, Vincenzo ^g   Abbou, Claude C ^e   Artibani, Walter ^a   Patard, Jean Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^e HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conventional renal cell carcinoma; Localized renal cell carcinoma; Nephron sparing surgery; Papillary renal cell carcinoma; Partial nephrectomy; Radial nephrectomy; TNM staging system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPHRECTOMY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 23844480769     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21254     Document Type: Article

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