Routine Pelvic Drainage Not Required After Open or Robotic Radical Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 330-333

  Sharma, Satish ^a   Kim, Hyung Lae ^a,b   Mohler, James L ^a,b,c  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONTINENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; URETHROVESICAL ANASTOMOSIS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRAINAGE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847081772     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.09.044     Document Type: Article

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