Percutaneous nephrostomy in patients with tumors of advanced stage: Treatment dilemmas and impact on clinical course and quality of life

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1297-1302

  Aravantinos, Evangelos ^a,b   Anagnostou, Theodore ^a   Karatzas, Anastasios D ^a   Papakonstantinou, Wassileios ^b   Samarinas, Michael ^a   Melekos, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b St Elisabeth Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE NEPHROPATHY; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS TUMOR; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36549004552     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0104     Document Type: Article

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