The RENAL nephrometry nomogram: Statistically significant, but is it clinically relevant?

European Urology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-251

  Chapin, Brian F ^a   Wood, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 124;

CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; NOMOGRAM; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 79959558888     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.04.005     Document Type: Editorial

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