A Critical Appraisal of the Value of Lymph Node Dissection at Nephroureterectomy for Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-124

  Lughezzani, Giovanni ^a,b   Jeldres, Claudio ^a   Isbarn, Hendrik ^a,c   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a   Sun, Maxine ^a   Pharand, Daniel ^d   Widmer, Hugues ^d   Arjane, Philippe ^d   Graefen, Markus ^c   Montorsi, Francesco ^b   Perrotte, Paul ^d   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^a,d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72249118659     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.07.1296     Document Type: Article

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