Platelet Count and Preoperative Haemoglobin Do Not Significantly Increase the Performance of Established Predictors of Renal Cell Carcinoma-Specific Mortality

European Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1428-1437

  Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^a   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^a   Lam, John S ^b   Tostain, Jacques ^c   Pantuck, Allan J ^b   Belldegrun, Arie S ^b   Patard, Jean Jacques ^d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Prognostic; Renal cell carcinoma; Survival; Thrombocytosis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PLATELET COUNT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34548812556     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.03.036     Document Type: Article

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