Robotic prostatectomy: Is it the future?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Ahlering, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CONTROL; CONTINENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 30744439288     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2005.06.019     Document Type: Editorial

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