Robotic prostatectomy: facts or fiction?

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9563, 2007, Pages 723-724

  Rocco, Bernardo ^a   Djavan, Bob ^b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847266429     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60336-5     Document Type: Note

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