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Status of pretreatment evaluation, treatment and follow‐up regimens for renal cell carcinoma in the Nordic countries

Søren Mommsen Department of Surgery, Urologic Unit, Middelfart County Hospital, Middelfart, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
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Börje Ljungberg Department of Urology, Norrland University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
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Gudmundur Vikar Einarsson Department of Urology, Landspitalí University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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John Johnsen Department of Surgery, Urologic Unit, Blekinge Hospital, Karlskrona, Sweden
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Jukka Kallio Department of Urology, University Hospital Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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Martti Nurmi Department of Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Alf Frimann Rosenlund Department of Urology, Tromsø University Hospital, Tromsø, Norway
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Pages 401-407 | Received 09 Sep 2002, Accepted 22 Jan 2003, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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