Impact of hospital volume on local recurrence and distant metastasis in bladder cancer patients treated with radical cystectomy in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 483-490

  Sabir, Emad F ^a   Holmäng, Sten ^b   Liedberg, Fredrik ^c   Ljungberg, Börje ^d   Malmström, Per Uno ^e   Månsson, Wiking ^c   Wijkström, Hans ^f   Jahnson, Staffan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; Hospital volume; Local recurrence; Microscopic radical resection; Organ confined disease; Radical cystectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TUMOR RECURRENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; SWEDEN; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84890458069     PISSN: 21681805     EISSN: 21681813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/21681805.2013.787118     Document Type: Article

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