Clinical impact of residual extraretroperitoneal masses in patients with advanced nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancer

Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 156-159

  Masterson, Timothy A ^a,b   Shayegan, Bobby ^a   Carver, Brett S ^a   Bajorin, Dean F ^a   Feldman, Darren R ^a   Motzer, Robert J ^a   Bosl, George J ^a   Sheinfeld, Joel ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERATOMA;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84555189364     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.09.038     Document Type: Article

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