Correlation between retroperitoneal lymph node size and presence of metastases in nonseminomatous germ cell tumors

International Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-18

  Hudolin, Tvrtko ^a   Kastelan, Zeljko ^a   Knezevic, Nikola ^a   Goluza, Eleonora ^a   Tomas, Davor ^b   Coric, Marijana ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb ^*  (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection; lymph nodes; metastases; nonseminomatous germ cell cancer of testes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOLOGY; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ORCHIECTOMY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR; WEIGHT, MASS AND SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859406124     PISSN: 10668969     EISSN: 19402465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066896911431452     Document Type: Article

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