Identifying additional lymph nodes in radical cystectomy lymphadenectomy specimens

Modern Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-144

  Gordetsky, Jennifer ^a   Scosyrev, Emelian ^b   Rashid, Hani ^b   Wu, Guan ^b   Silvers, Christopher ^b   Golijanin, Dragan ^b   Messing, Edward M ^b   Yao, Jorge L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bladder cancer; cystectomy; lymph nodes; lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW YORK; PELVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84855347327     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.137     Document Type: Article

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