Intraoperative and perioperative morbidity of contemporary radical retropubic prostatectomy in a consecutive series of 1243 patients: Results of a single center between 1999 and 2002

European Urology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-118

  Augustin, Herbert ^a   Hammerer, Peter ^a   Graefen, Markus ^a   Palisaar, Jüri ^a   Noldus, Joachim ^a   Fernandez, Salvador ^a   Huland, Hartwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Morbidity; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLEEDING; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM INJURY; SAFETY; SEPSIS; ULCER; URETER INJURY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037322024     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-2838(02)00495-5     Document Type: Article

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