Lymphadenectomy Combined with Radical Nephrectomy: To Do or Not to Do?

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-37

  Studer, Urs E ^a   Birkhäuser, Frédéric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY;

EID: 56249124207     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.09.056     Document Type: Editorial

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