Radical Cystectomy and Lymphadenectomy for Invasive Bladder Cancer: Towards the Evolution of an Optimal Surgical Standard

Seminars in Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-121

  Raj, Ganesh V ^a   Bochner, Bernard H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAFETY; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947262505     PISSN: 00937754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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