Critical Evaluation of the Prostate from Cystoprostatectomies for Bladder Cancer: Insights from a Complete Sampling with the Whole Mount Technique

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1305-1309

  Montironi, Rodolfo ^a   Cheng, Liang ^b   Mazzucchelli, Roberta ^a   Scarpelli, Marina ^a   Kirkali, Ziya ^c   Montorsi, Francesco ^d   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYSTECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 65049083736     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.10.032     Document Type: Editorial

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