Surgery Insight: Optimizing open nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy techniques for improved outcomes

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 561-569

  Eastham, James A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CONTINENCE; CRYOTHERAPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PENIS ERECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION;

HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35048856898     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0916     Document Type: Review

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