Surgical treatment of adrenal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: A single-centre experience of 45 patients

BJU International

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 505-508

  Antonelli, Alessandro ^a   Cozzoli, Alberto ^a   Simeone, Claudio ^a   Zani, Danilo ^a   Zanotelli, Tiziano ^a   Portesi, Elena ^a   Cosciani Cunico, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal metastasis; Metastasectomy; Renal cell carcinoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY SURGERY; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644993730     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.05934.x     Document Type: Article

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