...). An exploratory analysis indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment arms (fig. 2). Fig. 2 Kaplan-Meier plot of time to progression. Fig. 2. Kaplan-Meier plot of time to progression. Cisplatin Gefitinib Gemcitabine Transitional cell carcinoma...

... to in the content or advertisements. Ureter Transitional cell carcinoma Laparoscopy Matched-pair analysis Nephroureterectomy Statistical analysis was carried out using IBM SPSS, version 20.0. Significance was indicated by p < 0.05. Independent samples t test was used to compare age, operation...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Transitional cell carcinoma Kidney neoplasms...

... Transitional cell carcinoma Comorbidity scores Radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection constitutes the gold standard treatment for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB) and high-risk non-muscle-invasive disease refractory to instillation therapy [ 1,2 ]. Despite...

.... Transitional cell carcinoma Cystectomy Postoperative complications Perioperative care In 2010, urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder was diagnosed in 70,530 individuals in the United States and resulted in over 14,000 deaths [ 1 ]. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines...

...-cell clones [ 10 ]. Thymus involution Keratinocyte growth factor Thymic epithelial cell Transitional cell carcinoma Thymic microenvironment Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method and logrank tests. All values are expressed as means ± SE, and data represent 3...

... ]. A history of bladder cancer prior to UUTC management and upper tract tumor multifocality are the frequently reported clinical risk factors [ 7 ]. Laparoscopy Nephrectomy Retroperitoneal Transitional cell carcinoma Renal pelvis Bladder cancer Laparoscopic nephroureterectomy (pure or hand...

... symptom in 72% of cases. Open ureterectomy was performed in the majority of patients (85%), while none had laparoscopic surgery. Transitional cell carcinoma was found in 66% of cases. Mean follow-up was 2.7 years. Metastases were detected in 36% and correlated significantly with cancer-specific mortality...

...Na Young Jang; In Ah Kim; Seok-Soo Byun; Sang Eun Lee; Jae-Sung Kim Aims: We investigated the patterns of failure and prognostic factors for locoregional control (LRC) in patients with upper urinary tract (UUT) transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) treated with radical surgery to evaluate the role...

.... Materials and Methods: 162 samples of non-muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma, 25 samples of muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma and 10 samples of normal urothelium were investigated by immunohistochemistry using tissue microarrays. Complete patient and tumor characteristics were compared...

...YingLi Lin; Guang Sun; XiaoQiang Liu; YeGang Chen; ChunTing Zhang Objective: To investigate the clinical significance of T-cadherin (T-cad) tissue expression in patients with bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Materials and Methods: T-cad expression in 113 bladder TCC specimens and 37...

...Evangelos G. Gkougkousis; J. Kilian Mellon; T.R. Leyshon Griffiths Introduction: The standard treatment for upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (UUT-TCC) is open radical nephroureterectomy with excision of a bladder cuff. We assess the successful endoscopic completion and oncological...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Transitional cell carcinoma Chemotherapy Bladder Renal pelvis Ureter Urologia Internationalis Original Paper Urol Int 2010;85:47 51 DOI: 10.1159/000296294 Received...

...Kazuto Kunimi; Toshiyasu Amano; Tadao Uchibayashi; Mitsuo Ohkawa; Mikio Namiki We divided 53 consecutive patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the ureter into two groups. Group A consisted of patients treated in the 1970s and group B of patients treated in the 1980s. Clinical features...

...Fernando Val-Bernal; Felisa Castro Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XPN) is an uncommon, but not rare, type of bacterial infection of the kidneys. Malignancies originating within the renal pelvis are uncommon. We report a case of XPN associated with a transitional cell carcinoma (TCC...

...Masaya Fujimoto; Yuichi Tsujimoto; Norio Nonomura; Yasuyuki Kojima; Tsuneharu Miki; Hideo Ariyoshi; Tomio Kawasaki; Masato Sakori; Morito Monden; Akihiko Okuyama Renal pelvic cancer with a large vein tumor thrombus is very rare. We report a case of transitional cell carcinoma of the right renal...

...Nan-Haw Chow; Tzong-Shin Tzai; Hong-Lin Cheng; Shih-Huang Chan; Johnny Shinn-Nan Lin In order to assess the clinical implications of the cytology of voided urine, we analyzed 65 patients among 147 cases of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) in relation to the cytohistologic correlation...

.... Immunohistochemistry Tumor markers Epithelial membrane antigen Transitional cell carcinoma Cancer prognosis Original Paper Urol Int 1993;50:61-64 A. Lopez-Beltrana G.A. Croghanb /. Croghanb J.F. Gaeta0 Unit of Anatomical Pathology, Cordoba University Medical School, and Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba...

...Kazuhiko Fujita; Yoshiro Sakamoto; Makoto Fujime; Ryuichi Kitagawa Two rare cases of inflammatory skin metastasis from transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder were reported. 14 06 1993 31 01 1994 3 2 2010 © 1994 S. Karger AG, Basel 1994 Copyright / Drug Dosage...

... and after radical resection of tumors. Fourteen patients with renal cell carcinoma and 14 patients with transitional cell carcinoma participated in the study. In both groups, plasma levels of tissue-type plasminogen activator and urokinase-type plasminogen activator before the operation were higher than...