Prognostic significance of hydronephrosis in bladder cancer treated by radical cystectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-288

  Resorlu, Berkan ^a   Baltaci, Sumer ^a   Resorlu, Mustafa ^c   Ergun, Gul ^b   Abdulmajeed, Mohammed ^a   Haliloglu, Ahmet Hakan ^a   Gogus, Cagatay ^a   Beduk, Yasar ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Izmir Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Hydronephrosis; Prognosis; Radical cystectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350345466     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000241668     Document Type: Article

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