Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection: Does It Still Have a Role in the Management of Clinical Stage I Nonseminomatous Testis Cancer? A European Perspective

European Urology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1004-1019

  Rassweiler, Jens J ^a   Scheitlin, Walter ^a   Heidenreich, Axel ^b   Laguna, M Pilar ^c   Janetschek, Günter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Nonseminomatous germ cell cancer; Retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy; Surveillance; Testis cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EMBASE; EUROPE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MEDLINE; METASTASIS; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; TESTIS CANCER;

EUROPE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55649111120     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.08.022     Document Type: Review

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