Impact of Urethral Stump Length on Continence and Positive Surgical Margins in Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-177

  Borin, James F ^a   Skarecky, Douglas W ^a   Narula, Navneet ^a   Ahlering, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CANCER CELL; CONTINENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 34447504387     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.03.050     Document Type: Article

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