What is the contemporary role of radiofrequency ablation in the management of small renal masses? Are small lesions the radiologist's tumors?
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Department of Urology, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland; Department of Urology, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany; Department of Urology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urologic Unit, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Urology and Andrology, Donauspital, Vienna, Austria; Department of Urology, Graz Medical University, Graz, Austria; Department of Urology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Urooncology Unit, Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Urology, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; Department of Urology and Urooncology, Klinikum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; Department of Urology, University of Eastern Piedmont Maggiore della Carità Hospital, Novara, Italy; Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium E U R O P E A N U R O L O G Y X X X ( 2 0 1 2 ) X X X – X X X
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European urology
دوره 63 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013