Mortality After Urologic Cancer Surgery: Impact of Non-index Case Volume

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 906-910

  Gilbert, Scott M ^a   Dunn, Rodney L ^a   Miller, David C ^b   Daignault, Stephanie ^a   Ye, Zaojun ^a   Hollenbeck, Brent K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42749096937     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.12.035     Document Type: Article

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