Büttner, Florian
Winter, Stefan
Rausch, Steffen
Hennenlotter, Jörg
Kruck, Stephan
Stenzl, Arnulf
Scharpf, Marcus
Fend, Falko
Agaimy, Abbas
Hartmann, Arndt
Bedke, Jens
Schwab, Matthias
Schaeffeler, Elke
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG SFB685 C05)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (RaS1/FE-14)
ICEPHA Graduate School Tuebingen-Stuttgart
Article History
Received: 14 August 2017
Accepted: 1 June 2018
First Online: 5 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Use of the primary tumor samples with ccRCC histology and metastases samples of patients treated at the Department of Urology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany, was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Tuebingen (no. 379/2010/BO2) and informed written consent was provided by each subject prior to surgical resection.
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