Prognostic significance of lymphovascular invasion in clinically localized prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy

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Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 303-312

  Baydar, Dilek Ertoy ^a   Baseskioglu, Barbaros ^a   Ozen, Haluk ^a   Geyik, Pinar Ozdemir ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lymphovascular invasion; Prognosis; Prostate adenocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42249104221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2008.49     Document Type: Article

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