Is ultrasound of the retroperitoneum a valuable staging method in selecting testicular cancer patients for primary retroperitoneal lymph node dissection?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 226-229

  Mezvrishvili, Zaza ^a,c   Tchanturaia, Zaza ^a   Toidze, Tengiz ^a   Turmanidze, Nino ^a   Kekelidze, Maka ^b   Managadze, Laurent ^a  

^a A Tsulukidze National Centre of Urology   (Georgia)

^b Institute of Medical Radiology   (Georgia)

^c National Center of Urology   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Retroperitoneal ultrasound; Testicular germ cell tumors; Testis cancer staging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TESTIS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047138887     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099342     Document Type: Article

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