No Role for Routine Chest Radiography in Stage I Seminoma Surveillance

European Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-479

  Tolan, Shaun ^a   Vesprini, Danny ^c   Jewett, Michael A S ^b   Warde, Padraig R ^a   O'Malley, Martin ^b   Panzarella, Tony ^b   Sturgeon, Jeremy F G ^d   Moore, Malcolm ^b   Tew George, Betty ^a   Gospodarowicz, Mary K ^a   Chung, Peter W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Stage I seminoma; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 74649085679     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.06.029     Document Type: Article

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