Outcomes with an alternative anastomotic technique after radical retropubic prostatectomy: 10-year experience

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 132-136

  Thiel, David D ^a   Igel, Todd C ^a   Brisson, Theodore E ^a   Heckman, Michael G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BLADDER NECK; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; SPHINCTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE EXTRAVASATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VESICOURETHRAL ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745811679     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.01.024     Document Type: Article

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