Kidney cancer in 2011: Objectifying risk for localized renal masses

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 70-72

  Smaldone, Marc C ^a   Uzzo, Robert G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUMOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MORBIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84857034763     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2011.195     Document Type: Review

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