Troubling outcomes from population-level analysis of surgery for upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-901

  Abouassaly, Robert ^a   Alibhai, Shabbir M H ^a   Shah, Nasir ^a   Timilshina, Narhari ^a   Fleshner, Neil ^a   Finelli, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

AGED; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; ONTARIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957752707     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.04.020     Document Type: Article

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