Outcome After Radical Cystectomy With Limited or Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection

Journal of Urology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 873-878

  Dhar, Nivedita Bhatta ^a,b   Klein, Eric A ^b   Reuther, Alwyn M ^b   Thalmann, George N ^a   Madersbacher, Stephan ^a   Studer, Urs E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

lymph node excision; neoplasm metastasis; urinary bladder neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39149144498     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.10.076     Document Type: Article

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