Survival of patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the ureter and renal pelvis in Balkan endemic nephropathy and non-endemic areas of Serbia

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1357-1362

  Dragicevic, Dejan ^a,b   Djokic, Milan ^b   Pekmezovic, Tatjana ^b   Micic, Sava ^b   Hadzi Djokic, Jovan ^b   Vuksanovic, Aleksandar ^b   Simic, Tatjana ^c  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Balkan endemic nephropathy; Epidemiology; Survival; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper urinary tract tumours

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY PELVIS CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URETER CARCINOMA; YUGOSLAVIA; CANCER STAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS TUMOR; SURVIVAL; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 34447331053     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06793.x     Document Type: Article

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