Assessment of the Minimum Number of Lymph Nodes Needed to Detect Lymph Node Invasion at Radical Nephroureterectomy in Patients With Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1070-1074

  Roscigno, Marco ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^b   Freschi, Massimo ^a   Margulis, Vitaly ^c   Karakiewizc, Pierre ^d   Suardi, Nazareno ^d   Remzi, Mesut ^e   Zigeuner, Richard ^f   Bolenz, Christian ^g   Kikuchi, Eiji ^h   Weizer, Alon ⁱ   Bensalah, Karim ^j   Sagalowsky, Arthur ^b   Koppie, Theresa M ^k   Raman, Jay ^l   Fernández, Mario ^m   Ströbel, Philipp ^g   Kabbani, Wareef ^b   Langner, Cord ^f   Wheat, Jeffery ⁱ   Guo, Charles C ^c   Kassouf, Wassim ⁿ   Haitel, Andrea ^e   Wood, Christopher G ^c   Montorsi, Francesco ^a   more..

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

ⁿ MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350489253     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.04.084     Document Type: Article

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