One immediate postoperative instillation of chemotherapy in low risk Ta, T1 bladder cancer patients. Is it always safe?

European Urology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 336-338

  Oddens, J R ^a,c   Van Der Meijden, A P M ^a   Sylvester, R ^b  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Europ Organisation Res Treatm C   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complications; Epirubicin; Intravesical chemotherapy; Superficial bladder cancer

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; EPIRUBICIN; OFLOXACIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER PAPILLOMA; BLADDER PERFORATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INSTILLATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE EXTRAVASATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; EPIRUBICIN; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4043098276     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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