Postchemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Advanced Testicular Cancer: Radical or Modified Template Resection

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 217-226

  Heidenreich, Axel ^a   Pfister, David ^a   Witthuhn, Ralf ^b   Thüer, David ^a   Albers, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Nonseminoma; PEB; Retroperitoneal surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NERVE SPARING SURGERY; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56249088590     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.09.027     Document Type: Article

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