Urinary collecting system invasion in renal cell carcinoma: Incidence and long-term prognosis

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 718-722

  Schrader, Andres Jan ^a   Rustemeier, Julia ^a   Varga, Zoltan ^a   Hegele, Axel ^a   Olbert, Peter Jochen ^a   Frohme, Carsten ^a   Hofmann, Rainer ^a  

^a Fachbereich Medizin der Universitat Marburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collecting system invasion; Kidney cancer; Prognosis; Prognostic models; Staging systems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 70349229748     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2009.02353.x     Document Type: Article

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