A New Multimodality Technique Accurately Maps the Primary Lymphatic Landing Sites of the Bladder

European Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-211

  Roth, Beat ^a   Wissmeyer, Michael P ^a   Zehnder, Pascal ^a   Birkhäuser, Frédéric D ^a   Thalmann, George N ^a   Krause, Thomas M ^a   Studer, Urs E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Location of lymph nodes; Lymph node dissection; Sentinel nodes of the bladder

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER SURGERY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72149132022     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.10.026     Document Type: Article

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