Cancer control and the preservation of neurovascular tissue: How to meet competing goals during robotic radical prostatectomy

BJU International

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1013-1018

  Tewari, Ashutosh ^a,d   Rao, Sandhya ^a   Martinez Salamanca, Juan I ^a   Leung, Robert ^a   Ramanathan, Rajan ^a   Mandhani, Anil ^a   Vaughan, E Darracott ^a   Menon, Mani ^b   Horninger, Wolfgang ^c   Tu, Jiangling ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Departments of Urology   (Austria)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Athermal; Neuroanatomical map; Prostate cancer; Robotic prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CADAVER; CANCER CONTROL; CLAMP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CADAVER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PENILE ERECTION; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 40449085556     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07456.x     Document Type: Article

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