Patterns of failure and influence of potential prognostic factors after surgery in transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract
โ Scribed by Tatsuya Shimomura; Norishige Ohtsuka; Hiroki Yamada; Jun Miki; Norihiro Hayashi; Takahiro Kimura; Hidetoshi Kuruma; Shin Egawa
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-9625
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