title: [Clinical studies on renal pelvic and ureteral tumors].
abstract: Clinical studies were performed on 35 patients with renal pelvic and/or ureteral cancer treated at Kitano Hospital between 1988 and 1997. They consisted of 17 renal pelvic cancers, 17 ureteral cancers and 1 renal pelvic and ureteral cancer. Twenty-nine patients were males and six were females, and their age ranged from 41 to 82 years old (average: 62.2). Histologically, 34 were transitional cell carcinoma and 1 was adenocarcinoma. Pathological stage of the tumor was pTa in 34.3%, pT1 in 14.3%, pT2 in 11.4%, pT3 in 37.1%, and pT4 in 2.9%, and grade of the tumor G1 in 11.8%, G2 in 58.8% and G3 in 29.4%. Eighteen patients (51%) had or developed bladder cancer, which preceded the diagnosis of cancer of upper urinary tract in 2 cases, coexisted in 4 cases and developed subsequently in 12 cases. The overall cause-specific survival rate was 91.3% at 1 year, 83.8% at 3 years and 79.4% at 5 years. Tumor stage, grade, lymph node metastasis and vascular invasion had impact on survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Kitano Hospital.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kajita
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D007682:Kidney Pelvis; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate; D014516:Ureteral Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*