Can leakage at the vesico-urethral anastomosis be predicted after radical retropubic prostatectomy?

BJU International

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 503-506

  Ramsden, A R ^a   Chodak, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Cystography; Prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CATHETERIZATION; COMORBIDITY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMOGRAM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; URETHRA SURGERY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 1642289880     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04668.x     Document Type: Article

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