The role of lymph-node dissection in the treatment of upper urinary tract cancer: A multi-institutional study

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 576-580

  Abe, Takashige ^a   Shinohara, Nobuo ^a   Harabayashi, Toru ^a   Sazawa, Ataru ^a   Ishikawa, Shuhei ^a   Kubota, Kanako ^b   Matsuno, Yoshihiro ^b   Osawa, Takahiro ^c   Shibata, Takeshi ^c   Shinno, Yuichiro ^c   Kamota, Shinji ^c   Minami, Keita ^c   Sakashita, Shigeo ^c   Takeuchi, Ichiro ^c   Kumagai, Akira ^c   Mori, Tatsuya ^c   Togashi, Masaki ^c   Nonomura, Katsuya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Hokkaido Urothelial Cancer Research Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node dissection; Survival; Upper urinary tract cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URETER CANCER; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

EID: 48749127456     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07673.x     Document Type: Article

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