Stage-specific impact of tumor location on oncologic outcomes in patients with upper and lower tract urothelial carcinoma following radical surgery

European Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-684

  Rink, Michael ^a,b   Ehdaie, Behfar ^a   Cha, Eugene K ^a   Green, David A ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^c   Babjuk, Marko ^d   Margulis, Vitaly ^e   Raman, Jay D ^f   Svatek, Robert S ^g   Fajkovic, Harun ^a,h   Lee, Richard K ^a   Novara, Giacomo ⁱ   Hansen, Jens ^b,c   Daneshmand, Siamak ^j   Lotan, Yair ^e   Kassouf, Wassim ^k   Fritsche, Hans Martin ^l   Pycha, Armin ^m   Fisch, Margit ^b   Scherr, Douglas S ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a   more..

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^h General Hospital St Poelten   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^m CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Prognosis; Radical cystectomy; Radical nephroureterectomy; Survival; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863716721     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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