Update on bladder neck preservation during radical retropubic prostatectomy: Impact on pathologic outcome, anastomotic strictures, and continence

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-78

  Shelfo, Scott W ^a   Obek, Can ^a   Soloway, Mark S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0031890064     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00463-9     Document Type: Article

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