Preoperative serum prostate specific antigen does not reflect biochemical failure rates after radical prostatectomy in men with large volume cancers

Journal of Urology

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1596-1600

  Noguchi, Masanori ^a   Stamey, Thomas A ^a   McNeal, John E ^a   Yemoto, Cheryl M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Men; Neoplasms; Prostate specific antigen; Prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033786392     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)67036-X     Document Type: Article

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