Prognostic significance of tumour size in patients after tumour nephrectomy for localised renal cell carcinoma

European Urology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-330

  Steiner, Thomas ^a   Knels, Ralf ^a   Schubert, Joerg ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Renal cell carcinoma; Staging; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043112682     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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