作者
Mauro Gacci, Omar Saleh, Tommaso Cai, John L Gore, Carolina D’Elia, Andrea Minervini, Lorenzo Masieri, Claudia Giannessi, Michele Lanciotti, Virginia Varca, Alchiede Simonato, Sergio Serni, Giorgio Carmignani, Marco Carini
发表日期
2013/12
期刊
Health and quality of life outcomes
卷号
11
页码范围
1-6
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Purpose
Women undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) and urinary diversion for bladder cancer experience substantial limitations in health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, the level of discomfort caused by different urinary diversion has been never evaluated in long term survivors. The aim of this multicenter study is to evaluate differences in HRQOL among recurrence-free women undergoing cutaneous ureterostomy (CUS), Bricker's ileal conduit (BK-IC) and Orthotopic neobladder VIP (ONB-VIP) in disease-free females treated with radical cystectomy (RC), with long-term follow up (mean 60.1 months; range 36-122 months).
Materials and methods
All consecutively treated female patients from two urological institutions who underwent RC and urinary diversion from January 2000 to December 2008, with no evidence of tumor recurrence at a …
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