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Over the last decade, minimally-invasive surgery has gained popularity in the urological field as a valid treatment option for the conservative management of upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (UUT-TCC).

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Villa, L., Cloutier, J., Traxer, O. (2015). Enhanced Imaging: NBI, PDD, SPIES. In: Grasso III, M., Bagley, D. (eds) Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Carcinoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13869-5_11

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