A 20-Year Experience With Percutaneous Resection of Upper Tract Transitional Carcinoma: Is There an Oncologic Benefit With Adjuvant Bacillus Calmette Guérin Therapy?

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-31

  Rastinehad, Ardeshir R ^a   Ost, Michael C ^a   VanderBrink, Brian A ^a   Greenberg, Kathryn L ^a   El Hakim, Assaad ^a   Marcovich, Robert ^a   Badlani, Gopal H ^a   Smith, Arthur D ^a  

^a The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; THERACYS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT BIOPSY; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL ENDOSCOPY;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGED; BCG VACCINE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57849120619     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.06.026     Document Type: Article

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