The role of surveillance for small renal masses

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-3

  Volpe, Alessandro ^a   Jewett, Michael A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AUTOPSY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33846061591     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0674     Document Type: Review

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