The prognostic role of lymphovascular invasion in urothelial-cell carcinoma of upper and lower urinary tract

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3503-3506

  Brunocilla, Eugenio ^a   Pernetti, Remigio ^a   Martorana, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Lymphovascular invasion; Prognostic role; Review; Transitional carcinoma; Upper tract transitional carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOVASCULAR INVASION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054732337     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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