PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between surgical modality and clinicopathologic features for ureteral transitional cell carcinoma.
METHODS: The correlation between surgical modality and clinicopathology characteristics of 146 patients with ureteral carcinoma having undergone surgery was evaluated using univariate analysis by a general linear model.
RESULTS: 43.8%, 51.4% and 4.8% of patients experienced nephroureterectomy, renal conservation management and palliative operations, respectively, with a mean survival time of 97.3, 101.3 and 51.0 months (p=0.069) accordingly. Univariate analysis by general linear model indicated that the size of lesions, pathologic stage and tumour grade had a statistically significant impact on surgical modality (p=0.000, p=0.001 and p=0.017, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Tumour stage and grade, as well as tumour size, correlate with surgical modality.
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Bing-bing S, Cheng C, Han-zhong L, Shi R, Zhong-ming H, Hua F, Jin W, Qing-hai W, Zhi-gang J, Yujiang F Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Reference: Clin Transl Oncol. 2012 Apr;14(4):312-6
doi: 10.1007/s12094-012-0800-8
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22484639