Current Practice Patterns in the Surgical Management of Renal Cancer in the United States

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-160

  Sivarajan, Ganesh ^a   Huang, William ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Current practice; Renal cancer; Surgical management; United States

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; AGE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL NEPHRECTOMY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; OPEN RADICAL NEPHRECTOMY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOSURGERY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859490233     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: 1558318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2012.01.001     Document Type: Review

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