Learning curve and preliminary experience with da Vinci-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-244

  Artibani, Walter ^a,b   Fracalanza, Simonetta ^a   Cavalleri, Stefano ^a   Iafrate, Massimo ^a   Aragona, Maurizio ^a   Novara, Giacomo ^a   Gardiman, Marina ^a   Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Postoperative outcomes; Prostate cancer; Robotic radical prostatectomy; Surgical margin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER URETHRA ANASTOMOSIS; BLADDER URETHRA ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTIC ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 43749087845     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127333     Document Type: Article

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