Radical Cystectomy with an Extended Pelvic Lymphadenectomy: Rationale and Results

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 233-245

  Mills, Robert D ^a   Fleischmann, Achim ^b   Studer, Urs E ^b  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA BIFURCATION; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33847304547     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2006.10.001     Document Type: Review

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