Impact of the percentage of positive biopsy cores on the further stratification of primary grade 3 and grade 4 Gleason score 7 tumors in radical prostatectomy patients

Urology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1015-1019

  Vira, Manish A ^b   Tomaszewski, John E ^c   Hwang, Wei Ting ^c   D'Amico, Anthony V ^c   Whittington, Richard ^c   Vanarsdalen, Keith ^c   Wein, Alan J ^a   Malkowicz, S Bruce ^a  

^a Development and Medical Affairs Division   (Japan)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27744581521     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.05.051     Document Type: Article

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