Editorial Comment on: Observation Should Be Considered as an Alternative in Management of Renal Masses in Older and Comorbid Patients

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1427-1428

  Remzi, Mesut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; OBSERVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65049089938     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.12.032     Document Type: Note

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