Micropapillary variant of urothelial carcinoma in the upper urinary tract

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-66

  Guo, Charles C ^a   Tamboli, Pheroze ^a   Czerniak, Bogdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROPAPILLARY UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58349092937     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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