Pathological staging of muscle invasive bladder cancer: Is substaging of pT2 tumors really necessary?

International Braz J Urol

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 777-784

  Tokgöz, Hüsnü ^a,b   Turkolmez, Kadir ^a   Resorlu, Berkan ^a   Kose, Kenan ^a   Tulunay, Ozden ^a   Beduk, Yasar ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bladder neoplasms; Neoplasm staging; Survival; TNM staging

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849094505     PISSN: 16775538     EISSN: 16776119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1677-55382007000600005     Document Type: Article

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