Minimal Tumor Volume May Provide Additional Prognostic Information in Good Performance Patients After Radical Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1147-1151

  Guzzo, Thomas J ^a   Vira, Manish A ^a   Neway, William ^a   Hwang, Wei Ting ^b   Tomaszewski, John ^a   VanArsdalen, Keith ^a   Wein, Alan J ^a   Malkowicz, S Bruce ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249998945     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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