Sarcopenia is more than simply documenting low skeletal muscle mass

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-

  Cintosun, Umit ^a   Tasci, Ilker ^a   Safer, Vildan Binay ^b   Safer, Umut ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SARCOPENIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SARCOPENIA; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84918822975     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29016     Document Type: Letter

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