Preoperative hydronephrosis grade independently predicts worse pathological outcomes in patients undergoing nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Journal of Urology

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1621-1626

  Ito, Yujiro ^a   Kikuchi, Eiji ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Miyajima, Akira ^a   Mikami, Shuji ^a   Jinzaki, Masahiro ^a   Oya, Mototsugu ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carcinoma; hydronephrosis; kidney; ureter; urothelium

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; URETER TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953802409     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.12.035     Document Type: Article

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