Prognostic value of extranodal extension and other lymph node parameters in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 845-851

  Fajkovic, Harun ^a,b   Cha, Eugene K ^a   Jeldres, Claudio ^f   Donner, Gerhard ^b   Chromecki, Thomas F ^a,c   Margulis, Vitaly ^h   Novara, Giacomo ⁱ   Lotan, Yair ^h   Raman, Jay D ^l   Kassouf, Wassim ^g   Seitz, Christian ^d,k   Bensalah, Karim ^m   Weizer, Alon ⁿ   Kikuchi, Eiji ^o   Roscigno, Marco ^e   Remzi, Mesut ^j   Matsumoto, Kazumasa ^p   Breinl, Eckart ^b   Pycha, Armin ^k   Ficarra, Vincenzo ⁱ   Montorsi, Francesco ^j   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^f   Scherr, Douglas S ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a   more..

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b General Hospital St Poelten   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d St John of God Hospital   (Austria)

^e Landeskrankenhaus Weinviertel Korneuburg ^*  (Austria)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^j VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^k CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^l PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^o KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^p KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

carcinoma; lymph node excision; neoplasm metastasis; urinary tract; urothelium

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXTRANODAL EXTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UPPER TRACT TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857049052     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.10.158     Document Type: Article

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