Preoperative hydronephrosis predicts advanced bladder cancer but is not an independent factor for cancer-specific survival after radical cystectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-30

  Hofner, Thomas ^a   Haferkamp, Axel ^a   Knapp, Lena ^a   Pahernik, Sascha ^a   Hadaschik, Boris ^a   Djakovic, Nenad ^a   Wagener, Nina ^a   Hohenfellner, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; BMI; Hydronephrosis; Radical cystectomy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BODY MASS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79951813167     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321008     Document Type: Article

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