A selected review and personal experience with robotic prostatectomy: Implications for adoption of this new technology in the United Kingdom

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 242-249

  Goldstraw, M A ^a,b   Patil, K ^b   Anderson, C ^b   Dasgupta, P ^b   Kirby, R S ^b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Prostate Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE FERTILITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ROBOTICS; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34548432237     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: 14765608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500968     Document Type: Review

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