Randomized prospective evaluation of extended versus limited lymph node dissection in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-148

  Clark, Travis ^a   Parekh, Dipen J ^a   Cookson, Michael S ^a   Chang, Sam S ^a   Smith Jr , Ernest R ^a   Wells, Nancy ^a   Smith Jr , Joseph A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymph node excision; Prostatectomy; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; LEG EDEMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS ABSCESS; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETER INJURY;

EID: 0037213515     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(05)64055-4     Document Type: Article

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