Positive surgical margins with radical prostatectomy: Detailed pathological analysis and prognosis

Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 80-90

  Watson, Roger B ^a   Civantos, Francisco ^a   Soloway, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030200626     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00092-1     Document Type: Article

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