Naoki Uchida, Fumihiko Urabe, Yushi Suhara, Yuma Goto, Kentaro Yoshihara, Ibuki Sadakane, Yuji Yata, Shiro Kurawaki, Keiichiro Miyajima, Mimu Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kosuke Iwatani, Yu Imai, Keigo Sakanaka, Minoru Nakazono, Akira Hisakane, Takashi Kurauchi, Sotaro Kayano, Hajime Onuma, Keiichiro Mori, Koichi Aikawa, Takafumi Yanagisawa, Kojiro Tashiro, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Jun Miki, Akira Furuta, Shun Sato, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Kimura
BACKGROUND: An earlier systematic review and meta-analysis found that patients with a certain histological variant of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) exhibited more advanced disease and poorer survival than those with pure UTUC. A difference in the clinicopathological UTUC characteristics of Caucasian and Japanese patients has been reported, but few studies have investigated the clinical impact of the variant histology in Japanese UTUC patients. METHODS: We retrospectively enrolled 824 Japanese patients with pTa-4N0-1M0 UTUCs who underwent radical nephroureterectomy without neoadjuvant chemotherapy...
March 31, 2024: Translational Andrology and Urology