Intraoperative sentinel node identification and sampling in clinically node-negative renal cell carcinoma: Initial experience in 20 patients

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 793-799

  Bex, A ^a   Vermeeren, L ^a   Meinhardt, W ^a   Prevoo, W ^a   Horenblas, S ^a   Olmos, R A Valdés ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Kidney cancer; Lymph node dissection; Renal cell cancer; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81855185342     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-010-0615-6     Document Type: Article

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