Lymphovascular Invasion and Pathologic Tumor Stage Are Significant Outcome Predictors for Patients With Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 364-369

  Bolenz, Christian ^a   Fernández, Mario I ^b   Trojan, Lutz ^a   Herrmann, Edwin ^c   Becker, Andreas ^a   Weiss, Christel ^a   Alken, Peter ^a   Ströbel, Philipp ^a   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR NECROSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 48349087804     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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