Lymph node involvement in patients with bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy: A patho-anatomical study - A single center experience

Journal of Urology

Volumn 172, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 1818-1821

  Abol Enein, Hassan ^a   El Baz, Mahmoud ^a   Abd El Hameed, Mohamed A ^a   Abdel Latif, Mohamed ^a   Ghoneim, Mohamed A ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Bladder; Bladder neoplasms; Cystectomy; Lymph node dissection

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYSTECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBTURATOR NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URINE INCONTINENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 5444238522     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000140457.83695.a7     Document Type: Article

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