Quality of life after laparoscopic and open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in clinical Stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumor: A comparison study

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-160

  Poulakis, Vassilis ^a   Skriapas, Konstantinos ^a   de Vries, Rachelle ^a   Dillenburg, Wolfgang ^a   Ferakis, Nikolaos ^a   Witzsch, Ulrich ^a   Becht, Edward ^a  

^a Stiftung Hospital Zum Heiligen Geist   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC RETROPERITONEAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; OPEN RETROPERITONEAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SAFETY; SCAR PAIN; URETER INJURY; URETER STRICTURE; URINOMA; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745858021     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.01.023     Document Type: Article

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