Initial clinical experience with use of ureteral access sheaths in the diagnosis and treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 523-527

  Gorin, Michael A ^a   Santos Cortes, Janice A ^a   Kyle, Christopher C ^a   Carey, Robert I ^a   Bird, Vincent G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA; URETER; URETER STRICTURE; URETERAL ACCESS SHEATH; URETEROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 80052329047     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.01.048     Document Type: Article

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