Positive Apical Surgical Margins after Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy, Truth or Artefact?

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-31

  Connolly, Stephen S ^a   O'Toole, Gary C ^a   O'Malley, Kiaran J ^a   Manecksha, Rustom ^a   O'Brien, Anne ^a   Mulvin, David W ^a   Quinlan, David M ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Apical; Cancer; Margins; Prostate; Radical; Recurrence; Surgery

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE APICAL SURGICAL MARGIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1242295234     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365590310017334     Document Type: Article

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