Routine scrotal ultrasonography during the follow-up of patients with testicular cancer leads to earlier detection of asynchronous tumours and a high rate of organ preservation

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1118-1120

  Stoehr, Brigitte ^a   Zangerl, Florian ^a   Steiner, Eberhard ^a   Leonhartsberger, Nicolai ^a   Fritzer, Andreas ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Steiner, Hannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Follow up; Organ preservation; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTUM; TESTIS CANCER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; ORCHIECTOMY; PALPATION; SCROTUM; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950191562     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08906.x     Document Type: Article

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