The predictive value of race as a clinical prognostic factor among patients with clinically localized prostate cancer: A multivariate analysis of positive surgical margins

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 726-731

  Powell, Isaac J ^a,b   Heilbrun, Lance K ^a,b   Sakr, Wael ^a,b   Grignon, David ^a,b   Montie, James ^a,b   Novallo, Mary ^a,b   Smith, Daryn ^a,b   Pontes, J Edson ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030940566     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00618-8     Document Type: Article

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