Urinary cytology has a poor performance for predicting invasive or high-grade upper-tract urothelial carcinoma

BJU International

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 701-705

  Messer, Jamie ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^b   Brien, James C ^a   Herman, Michael P ^b   Ng, Casey K ^b   Scherr, Douglas S ^b   Scoll, Benjamin ^c   Uzzo, Robert G ^c   Wille, Mark ^d   Eggener, Scott E ^d   Steinberg, Gary ^d   Terrell, John D ^e   Lucas, Steven M ^e   Lotan, Yair ^e   Boorjian, Stephen A ^c   Raman, Jay D ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cytology; radical nephroureterectomy; transitional cell carcinoma; urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; URINE CYTOLOGY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052037243     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09899.x     Document Type: Article

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