Quality of life after radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 790-796

  Steineck, Gunnar ^a   Helgesen, Fred ^a,b   Adolfsson, Jan ^a   Dickman, Paul W ^a   Johansson, Jan Erik ^b   Norlén, Bo Johan ^c   Holmberg, Lars ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0037068634     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021483     Document Type: Article

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