Multifocality rather than tumor location is a prognostic factor in upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1161-1165

  Williams, Andrew K ^a   Kassouf, Wassim ^b   Chin, Joseph ^a   Rendon, Ricardo ^c   Jacobsen, Niels ^d   Fairey, Adrian ^d   Kapoor, Anil ^e   Black, Peter ^f   Lacombe, Louis ^g   Tanguay, Simon ^b   So, Alan ^f   Lattouf, Jean Baptiste ^b   Bell, David ^c   Fradet, Yves ^g   Saad, Fred ^h   Matsumoto, Ed ^e   Drachenberg, Darrel ⁱ   Cagiannos, Ilias ^j   Izawa, Jonathan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Carcinoma; Nephro ureterectomy; Renal pelvis; Ureter; Urothelial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY PELVIS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; URETER TUMOR;

CARCINOMA; NEPHRO-URETERECTOMY; RENAL PELVIS; URETER; UROTHELIAL;

AGED; CANADA; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84884674369     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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