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Treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer: is cystectomy enough?

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boxed-textHautmann RE et al. (2006) Cystectomy for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: results of a surgery only series in the neobladder era. J Urol 176: 486–492

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