Retrograde endoscopic laser therapy and ureteroscopic surveillance for transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Mugiya, Soichi ^a   Ozono, Seiichiro ^a   Nagata, Masao ^a   Otsuka, Atsushi ^a   Takayama, Tatsuya ^a   Nagae, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser therapy; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper urinary tract; Ureteroscopic surveillance; Ureteroscopic treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER METASTASIS; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; CYSTOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETEROSCOPY; URINE CYTOLOGY; YAG LASER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 33645236080     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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