National Comprehensive Cancer Network practice guidelines 2011: Need for more accurate recommendations for pelvic lymph node dissection in prostate cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-428

  Abdollah, Firas ^a,c   Sun, Maxine ^b   Suardi, Nazareno ^a   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Capitanio, Umberto ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^a   Tutolo, Manuela ^a   Passoni, Niccolò ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a   Briganti, Alberto ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

lymph node excision; lymphatic metastasis; male; pelvis; prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMOGRAM; PELVIC LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NOMOGRAMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863719444     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.03.129     Document Type: Article

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