Long-term experience with an anatomical anterograde approach to radical prostatectomy: Results in terms of positive margin rate

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-156

  Sciarra, Alessandro ^a,b   Gentile, Vincenzo ^a   De Matteis, Anna ^a   Dattilo, Cristian ^a   Autran Gomez, Anna Maria ^a   Salciccia, Stefano ^a   Di Silverio, Franco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Margins, surgical; Prostate neoplasm, staging; Radical prostatectomy; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41149138776     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112605     Document Type: Article

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