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Original Article

The Efficacy of Preoperative Systemic Chemotherapy in the Local Control of Muscle-Invasive Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder

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Pages 519-522 | Received 26 Aug 1993, Accepted 07 Dec 1993, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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