The prognostic and staging value of lymph node dissection in the treatment of invasive bladder cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 485-494

  Sanderson, Kristin M ^a   Skinner, Donald ^a   Stein, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOCELE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; PROGNOSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748602131     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0582     Document Type: Review

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