Removal of more lymph nodes may provide better outcome, as well as more accurate pathologic findings, in patients with bladder cancer-analysis of role of pelvic lymph node dissection

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-548

  Honma, Ichiya ^a   Masumori, Naoya ^a   Sato, Eiji ^a   Maeda, Toshihiro ^a   Hirobe, Megumi ^a   Kitamura, Hiroshi ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Itoh, Naoki ^a   Tamakawa, Mitsuharu ^a   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY DIVERSION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748939573     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.03.049     Document Type: Article

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