Upper urinary tract cancer: Location is correlated with prognosis

European Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 438-444

  Van Der Poel, H G ^a   Antonini, N ^a   Van Tinteren, H ^a   Horenblas, S ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper tract

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 23944469320     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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