Endourologic management of patients with upper-tract transitional-cell carcinoma: Long-term follow-up in a single center

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1005-1009

  Sowter, Steven J ^a,b   Ilie, Cristian P ^a   Efthimiou, Ioannis ^a   Tolley, David A ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; NEODYMIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY PRESERVATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOLITARY KIDNEY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL ENDOSCOPY; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URETEROSCOPY; UROLOGY;

EID: 34247160689     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.9922     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Tawfiek ER, Bagley DH. Upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. Urology 1997;50:321.
2. Cummings KB. Nephroureterectomy: Rational in management of transitional cell carcinoma of upper urinary tract. Urol Clin North Am 1980;7:1560.
3. Bariol SV, Grant DS, McNeil SA, Tolley DA. Oncological control following laparoscopic nephroureterectomy: 7-Year outcome. J Urol 2004;172:1805.
4. Keeley FX Jr, Tolley DA. Laparoscopic nephroureterectomy: Making management of upper-tract transitional-cell carcinoma entirely minimally invasive. J Endourol 1998;12:139.
5. McNeil SA, Chrisofos M, Tolley DA. The long-term outcome after laparoscopic nephroureterectomy: A comparison with open nephroureterectomy. BJU Int 2000;86:619.
6. Gill IS, Sung TS, Hobart MG, Savage SJ, et al. Laparoscopic radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract transitional cell carcinoma: The Cleveland Clinic experience. J Urol 2000;164:1513.
7. Ziegelbaum M, Novick AC, Streem SB, et al. Conservative surgery for transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis. J Urol 1987;138:1146.
8. Engelmyer EL, Belis JA. Long-term ureteroscopic management of low-grade transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. Techn Urol 1996;2:113.
9. Martinez-Pineiro JA, Matres-Garcia MJ, Martinez-Pineiro L. Endourological treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinomas: Analysis of a series of 59 tumors. J Urol 1996;156:377.
10. Tasca A, Zattoni F, Garbeglio A, et al. Endourologic treatment of transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. J Endourol 1992;6:253
11. Elliot DS, Blute ML, Patterson DE, et al. Long-term follow-up of endoscopically treated upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. Urology 1996;47:819.
12. Chen GL, Bagley DH. Ureteroscopic management of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma in patients with normal contralateral kidney. J Urol 2000;164:1173.
13. Elliott DS, Segura JW, Lightner DJ, Patterson DE, Blute ML. Is nephroureterectomy necessary in all cases of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma? Long-term results of conservative endourologic management of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma in individuals with normal contralateral kidney. Urology 2001;58:174.
14. Lam JS, Gupta M. Ureteroscopic management of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. Urol Clin North Am 2004;31:115.
15. Razvi HA, Chun SS, Denstedt JD, Sales JL. Soft-tissue applications of the holmium:YAG laser in urology. J Endourol 1995;9:387.
16. Bagley DH, Erhard M. Use of the holmium laser in the upper tract. Techn Urol 1995;1:25.
17. Blute ML, Segura JW, Patterson DE, Benson RC Jr, Zinke H. Impact of endourology on diagnosis and management of upper urinary tract urothelial cancer. J Urol 1989;141:1298.
18. Murphy DM, Zinke H, Furlow WL. Primary grade 1 transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis and ureter. J Urol 1980;123:629.
19. Murphy DM, Zinke H, Furlow WL. Management of high grade transitional cell carcinoma of the renal tract. J Urol 1981;125:25.
20. Keeley FX Jr, Bibbo M, Bagley DH. Ureteroscopic treatment and surveillance of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. J Urol 1997;157:1560.
21. Qureshi AR, Alvestrand A, Divino-Filho JC, et al. Inflammation, malnutrition, and cardiac disease as predictors of mortality in hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 2002;13:S28.
22. National Kidney and Urological Diseases Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease. National Institutes of Health Publication 04-3895. Bethesda, MD: NIH, 2004.
23. Jarret TW, Sweetser PM, Weiss GH, Smith AD. Percutaneous management of transitional cell carcinoma of the renal collecting system: 9-Year experience. J Urol 1995;154:1629.
24. Clark PE, Streem SB, Geisinger MA. 13 Year experience with percutaneous management of upper tract transition cell carcinoma. J Urol 1999;161:772.
25. Tomera KM, Leary FJ, Zinke H. Pyeloscopy in urothelial tumours. J Urol 1982;127:1088.
26. Sagalowski AI, Jarrett TW. Management of urothelial tumours of the renal pelvis and ureter. In: Walsh PC, Retik AB, Vaughan ED Jr, Wein AJ. Campbell's Urology, ed 7. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1998, pp 2845-2275.
27. Deligne E, Colombel M, Badet L, et al. Conservative management of upper tract tumours. Eur Urol 2002;42:43.
28. Millan-Rodriguez F, Chechile-Toniolo G, Salvador-Bayarri J, Huget-Perez J, Vincente-Rodriguez J. Upper urinary tract tumours after primary superficial bladder tumours: Prognostic factors and risk groups. J Urol 2000;164:1183.
29. Morioka M, Jo Y, Furukawa K, et al. Prognostic factors for survival and bladder recurrence in transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. J Urol 2001;8:366.
30. Laitsikos EN, Dinlec CZ, Kapoor R, et al. Transitional-cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis: Ureteroscopic and percutaneous approach. J Endourol 2001;15:377.