Urology
Volume 75, Issue 2 , Pages 266-270 , February 2010

Coded Tumor Size May Be Unreliable for Small Metastatic Renal Cancers in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Dataset

  • Mike M. Nguyen

      Affiliations

    • Section of Urology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mike M. Nguyen, M.D., PO Box 245077, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Section of Urology, Tucson, AZ 85724-5077
    • ,
  • Inderbir S. Gill

      Affiliations

    • USC Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Received 4 August 2009 ,Accepted 12 September 2009.

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PII: S0090-4295(09)02558-8

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.09.020

Urology
Volume 75, Issue 2 , Pages 266-270 , February 2010

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