We abandoned 'superficial bladder cancer': We accepted 'non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer', but... - On occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the first EAU Guidelines on Bladder Cancer

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 486-487

  Reljić, Ante ^a   Trnski, Davor ^a  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84862764182     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000336514     Document Type: Letter

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