Impact of surgical margin status on long-term cancer control after radical prostatectomy

BJU International

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1199-1203

  Orvieto, Marcelo A ^a   Alsikafi, Nejd F ^a   Shalhav, Arieh L ^a   Laven, Brett A ^a   Steinberg, Gary D ^a   Zagaja, Gregory P ^a   Brendler, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer control; Prostate cancer; Prostatectomy; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750895054     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06563.x     Document Type: Article

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