Impact of the level of muscle invasion in organ-confined bladder cancer

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-149

  Girgin, Cengiz ^a,b   Sezer, Akif ^a   Delibaş, Mustafa ^a   Şahin, Oǧuz ^a   Öder, Mehmet ^a   Dinçel, Çetin ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b I Üroloji Kliniǧi ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Muscle invasive bladder cancer; Organ confined bladder cancer; Survival difference, pT2a pT2b invasive bladder carcinomas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUSCLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846911518     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098073     Document Type: Article

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