Does Stage T3a Renal Cell Carcinoma Embrace a Homogeneous Group of Patients?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1682-1686

  Gofrit, Ofer N ^a   Shapiro, Amos ^a   Pizov, Galina ^a   Landau, Ezekiel H ^a   Katz, Ran ^a   Zorn, Kevin C ^a   Pode, Dov ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

adipose tissue; carcinoma; kidney; neoplasm staging; prognosis; renal cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34147130828     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.01.064     Document Type: Article

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