Bacillus Calmette-Guérin failure in patients with non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder may be due to the urologist's failure to detect urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract and urethra

European Urology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 825-831

  Giannarini, Gianluca ^a   Birkhäuser, Frédéric D ^a   Recker, Franz ^b   Thalmann, George N ^a   Studer, Urs E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Aarau ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Gu rin; Bladder neoplasms; Carcinoma in situ; Cytology; Follow up studies; Upper urinary tract; Urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS CALMETTE-GUÉRIN; BLADDER NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CYTOLOGY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; UPPER URINARY TRACT; UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BCG VACCINE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETHRAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894432407     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.09.049     Document Type: Article

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