Preoperative Hydronephrosis, Ureteroscopic Biopsy Grade and Urinary Cytology Can Improve Prediction of Advanced Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Journal of Urology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-73

  Brien, James C ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^b   Herman, Michael P ^c   Ng, Casey K ^c   Scherr, Douglas S ^c   Scoll, Benjamin ^d   Uzzo, Robert G ^d   Wille, Mark ^e   Eggener, Scott E ^e   Terrell, John D ^f   Lucas, Steven M ^f   Lotan, Yair ^f   Boorjian, Stephen A ^d   Raman, Jay D ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carcinoma, transitional cell; hydronephrosis; kidney; ureter; urothelium

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT BIOPSY; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; URINE CYTOLOGY;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 77953121460     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.030     Document Type: Article

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