Should hilar lymph nodes be expected in radical nephrectomy specimens?

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 310-313

  Phan, D C ^a   McKenney, J K ^b   Cox, R M ^a   Madi, R ^a   Greene, G F ^a   Gokden, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hilar; Lymph node; Radical nephrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEPHRECTOMY; PALPATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952545747     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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