Surgeon Experience is Strongly Associated With Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy for All Preoperative Risk Categories

Journal of Urology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2212-2217

  Klein, Eric A ^a   Bianco, Fernando J ^b   Serio, Angel M ^b   Eastham, James A ^b   Kattan, Michael W ^a   Pontes, J Edson ^c   Vickers, Andrew J ^b   Scardino, Peter T ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

outcome assessment (health care); practice (psychology); prostate; prostatectomy; prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY;

EID: 43049104507     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.01.107     Document Type: Article

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