Significance of T stadium and grading as prognostic factors in transitional cell carcinoma of the ureter

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3 B, 2004, Pages 1921-1924

  Fiori, Enrico ^a,b   Cavallaro, Giuseppe ^a   Paparelli, Claudia ^a   Decesare, Alessandro ^a   Bononi, Marco ^a   Galati, Gaspare ^a   Tiziano, Giuseppe ^a   Cavallaro, Antonino ^a   Cangemi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER; URETER CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3242667251     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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