title: [Urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract: clinical and pathological criteria and their predictive implications after radical nephroureterectomy].
abstract: Recent multicentric studies contributed significantly to the understanding of clinical and pathological criteria and their implications as prognosticators of the upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma. They demonstrated a large variety of prognosticators influencing the course of this rare disease. The influence of gender and age and the presence of symptoms and renal obstruction in addition to pathologic criteria such as staging, tumor architecture, lymphnode invasion, localization and the presence of CIS or tumor necrosis on prognosis and disease recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy were investigated. Additional multicentric, ideally prospective studies are warranted to validate current findings.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Urologie und Andrologie, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Wien, Austria. drseitz@gmx.at
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Seitz
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schramek
mesh_terms: D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D060787:Neoplasm Grading; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011379:Prognosis; D014513:Ureter / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014516:Ureteral Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*