Incidence and survival outcomes in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma diagnosed with variant histology and treated with nephroureterectomy.

Stefania ZamboniBeat FoersterMohammad AbufarajThomas SeisenMorgan RoupretPierre ColinAlexandre De la TailleCarlo Di BonaBenoit PeyronnetKarim BensalahRoman HeroutManfred Peter WirthVladimir NovotnyShahrokh F ShariatPiotr ChlostaAlessandro AntonelliClaudio SimeonePhilipp BaumeisterAgostino MatteiFrancesco MontorsiGiuseppe SimoneMichele GallucciKazumasa MatsumotoPierre I KarakiewiczAlberto BrigantiEvanguelos XylinasShahrokh F ShariatMarco Moschininull nullnull null

Published in: BJU international (2019)

We found that one out of 10 patients with UTUC treated with RNU had variant histology. Only micropapillary and sarcomatoid variants were associated with poorer oncological outcomes after adjusting for available confounding factors.

Keyphrases

urinary tract
risk factors
copy number
rectal cancer
newly diagnosed
prostate cancer
radical prostatectomy
gene expression
robot assisted