Characteristics of upper urothelial carcinoma in an area of Balkan endemic nephropathy in South Serbia. A fifty-year retrospective study

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Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 674-679

  Cukuranovic, Rade ^a   Ignjatovic, Ivan ^b   Visnjic, Milan ^b   Velickovic, Ljubinka Jankovic ^b   Petrovic, Branislav ^a   Potic, Milan ^b   Stefanovic, Vladisav ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Radiology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEGMENTAL RESECTION; SERBIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER URINARY TRACT TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA;

EID: 78650454729     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089161009600505     Document Type: Article

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