Interobserver variability limits exact preoperative staging by computed tomography in bladder cancer

Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1317-1321

  Tritschler, Stefan ^a   Mosler, Clarissa ^a   Tilki, Derya ^a   Buchner, Alexander ^a   Stief, Christian ^a   Graser, Anno ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84861751487     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.01.040     Document Type: Article

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