Prognostic value of static cytometry in transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: Recurrence rate and survival in a group of patients at 10 years follow-up

Oncology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 213-219

  Cai, Tommaso ^a   Margallo, Edoardo ^b   Nesi, Gabriella ^a   Giubilei, Gianluca ^a   Rizzo, Michelangelo ^a   Bartoletti, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; DNA ploidy; Progression; Recurrence; Transitional cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PLOIDY; PROGNOSIS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PLOIDIES; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644874748     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.15.1.213     Document Type: Article

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