The incidence and management of metachronous testicular germ cell tumors in patients with extragonadal germ cell tumors

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-324

  Hashimoto, Kenji ^a   Fujimoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Kouno, Tsutomu ^a   Koseki, Masahiro ^b   Yonemori, Kan ^a   Hirata, Taizo ^a   Yunokawa, Mayu ^a   Shimizu, Chikako ^a   Katsumata, Noriyuki ^a   Tamura, Kenji ^a   Ando, Masashi ^a   Takeuchi, Masahiro ^b   Nakanishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Komiyama, Motokiyo ^a   Nakagawa, Tohru ^a   Fujiwara, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extragonadal germ cell tumor; Management; Metachronous testicular germ cell tumor; Outcome; Testicular biopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAGONADAL GERM CELL TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACHRONOUS TESTICULAR GERM CELL TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ORCHIECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TESTIS BIOPSY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROGNOSIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860278149     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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