Staging of muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Can computerized tomography help us to decide on local treatment?

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 827-831

  Tritschler, Stefan ^a   Mosler, Clarissa ^a   Straub, Julia ^a   Buchner, Alexander ^a   Karl, Alexander ^a   Graser, Anno ^a   Stief, Christian ^a   Tilki, Derya ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Computed tomography; Radical cystectomy; Staging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CYSTECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URINARY DIVERSION; UROTHELIUM;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINARY DIVERSION; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 84870323891     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-011-0817-6     Document Type: Article

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