Trends from 1999 to 2007 in the surgical treatments of kidney cancer in Europe: Data from the Veneto Region, Italy

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1255-1259

  Fedeli, Ugo ^a   Novara, Giacomo ^a,b   Alba, Natalia ^a   Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a,b   Artibani, Walter ^a,b   Spolaore, Paolo ^a  

^a SER Epidemiological Department   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Epidemiology; Laparoscopy; Partial nephrectomy; Radical nephrectomy; Renal cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; KIDNEY CANCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRONS;

EID: 77950853673     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08929.x     Document Type: Article

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