Resumen de Correlation between surgical modality and clinicopathologic characteristics for ureteral transitional cell carcinoma

Shi Bing-bing, Chen Cheng, Li Han-zhong, Rong Shi, Huang Zhong-ming, Fan Hua, Wen Jin, Wang Qing-hai, Ji Zhi-Gang, Yujiang Fang

• Purpose To investigate the relationship between surgical modality and clinicopathologic features for ureteral transitional cell carcinoma.

  Methods The correlation between surgical modality and clinicopathology characteristics of 146 patients with ureteral carcinoma having undergone surgery was evaluated using univariate analysis by a general linear model.

  Results 43.8%, 51.4% and 4.8% of patients experienced nephroureterectomy, renal conservation management and palliative operations, respectively, with a mean survival time of 97.3, 101.3 and 51.0 months (p=0.069) accordingly. Univariate analysis by general linear model indicated that the size of lesions, pathologic stage and tumour grade had a statistically significant impact on surgical modality (p=0.000, p=0.001 and p=0.017, respectively).

  Conclusion Tumour stage and grade, as well as tumour size, correlate with surgical modality.