James Peter Blackmur, Etienne Chew, Matthew Trail, Katie Brodie, Nicola Santoni, Flora Rodger, David Hamilton, Fortis Gaba, Sophie Randall, Sarika Nalagatla, Brian Little, Khalid Janjua, Clare Sweeney, Andrew Martindale, Khaver Qureshi, Antony Riddick, Kevin O'Connor, S Alan McNeill, Simon Phipps, Mark L Cutress, Edward A A Mains, Ian Dunn, Sarah Reid, Grant D Stewart, Gavin Lamb, Muhammad Zeeshan Aslam, Steve Leung, Ross Clark, Ian Wilson, Grenville Oades, Alexander Chapman, Alexander Laird
PURPOSE: Nephroureterectomy(NU) remains the gold-standard surgical option for the management of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma(UTUC). Controversy exists regarding the optimal excision technique of the lower ureter. We sought to compare post-UTUC bladder tumour recurrence across the Scottish Renal Cancer Consortium(SRCC). METHODS: Patients who underwent NU for UTUC across the SRCC 2012-2019 were identified. The impact of lower-end surgical technique along with T-stage, N-stage, tumour location and focality, positive surgical margin, pre-NU ureteroscopy, upper-end technique and adjuvant mitomycin C administration were assessed by Kaplan-Meier and Cox-regression...
January 24, 2023: World Journal of Urology