The modern management of upper urinary tract urothelial cancer: Tumour diagnosis, grading and staging

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 973-977

  Painter, Daniel J ^a   Timoney, Anthony G ^a   Denton, Karin ^a   Alken, Peter ^b   Keeley Jr , Francis X ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GUIDE WIRE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND; URETER; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT CANCER; URINE CYTOLOGY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; UROTHELIUM;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 34247110334     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06801.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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