Apical soft tissue biopsies predict biochemical failure in radical perineal prostatectomy patients with apical cancer involvement

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 72-76

  Kubler H R ^a   Szukala, S A ^a   Madden, J F ^a   Tseng, T Y ^a   Paulson, D F ^a   Vieweg, J ^b   Dahm, P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PERINEUM; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33847664585     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: 14765608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500926     Document Type: Article

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