Primary Site and Incidence of Lymph Node Metastases in Urothelial Carcinoma of Upper Urinary Tract

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 265-269

  Kondo, Tsunenori ^a   Nakazawa, Hayakazu ^b   Ito, Fumio ^a   Hashimoto, Yasunobu ^a   Toma, Hiroshi ^a   Tanabe, Kazunari ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY PELVIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; UROTHELIUM;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33847060944     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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