Update on impact of moderate dose of adjuvant radiation on urinary continence and sexual potency in prostate cancer patients treated with nerve- sparing prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 453-458

  Formenti, Silvia C ^b   Lieskovsky, Gary ^a   Skinner, Donald ^a   Tsao Wei, Denice D ^a   Groshen, Susan ^a   Petrovich, Zbigniew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PENILE ERECTION; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION;

EID: 0033835066     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)00677-4     Document Type: Article

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