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Original Article

Accuracy of Clinical Staging in Non-Seminomatous Testicular Cancer—a Single Centre Experience of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection

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Pages 501-506 | Received 20 Nov 1994, Accepted 29 Jan 1995, Published online: 15 Feb 2010

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