The number of nodes removed as well as the template of the dissection is independently correlated to cancer-specific survival after radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 711-719

  Brunocilla, Eugenio ^a   Pernetti, Remigio ^a   Schiavina, Riccardo ^a   Borghesi, Marco ^a   Vagnoni, Valerio ^a   Rocca, Giovanni Christian ^a   Borgatti, Filippo ^a   Concetti, Sergio ^a   Martorana, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Cancer specific survival; Pelvic lymph node dissection; Radical cystectomy; Template

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84879505818     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: 15732584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-013-0461-8     Document Type: Article

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