Tumor Size and Nephron-Sparing Surgery: Does It Still Matter?

European Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 691-693

  Bensalah, Karim ^a   Crépel, Maxime ^a   Patard, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 39449125360     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.11.023     Document Type: Editorial

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