The prognostic impact of lymph node dissection for clinically node-negative upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma in patients who are treated with radical nephroureterectomy

• Hsiang-Chen Hsieh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2162-1282

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• Chun-Li Wang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Family Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chuan-Shu Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Kuang Yang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Jian-Ri Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Shian-Shiang Wang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chen-Li Cheng,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chia-Yen Lin ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); chiu37782002@yahoo.com (KYC)

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6303-2187

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• Kun-Yuan Chiu

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); chiu37782002@yahoo.com (KYC)

  Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

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