Radical retropubic prostatectomy frustrated by prior laparoscopic mesh herniorrhaphy

Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 452-453

  Cooperberg, Matthew R ^a   Downs, Tracy M ^a   Carroll, Peter R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF M Zion Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; HERNIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 1842504374     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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