Urinary collecting system invasion reflects adverse long-term outcome and is associated with simultaneous metastatic spread at the time of surgery and with multilocular dissemination during postsurgical follow-up in renal cell cancer

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Brookman Amissah, Sabine ^a   May, Matthias ^b   Albrecht, Knut ^c   Herrmann, Thomas ^c   Roigas, Jan ^d   Gilfrich, Christian Peter ^b   Pflanz, Sandra ^e   Gunia, Sven ^f  

^a Hospital Weiden   (Germany)

^b Urologische Klinik   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d VIVANTES KLINIKUM AM URBAN   (Germany)

^e Carl Thiem Hospital   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histopathologic reports; Patterns of metastatic spread; Prognostic outcome; Renal cell carcinoma; Urinary collecting system invasion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75849150725     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-009-0426-9     Document Type: Article

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