Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: Initial short-term experience

Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 854-857

  Schuessler, William W ^a   Schulam, Peter G ^a   Clayman, Ralph V ^a   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATECTOMY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031451418     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00543-8     Document Type: Article

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