Second prize: Pelvic neuroanatomy and innovative approaches to minimize nerve damage and maximize cancer control in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1137-1146

  Martinez Salamanca, Juan I ^a,b   Ramanathan, Rajan ^a   Rao, Sandhya ^a   Mandhani, Anil ^a   Leung, Robert ^a   Horninger, Wolfgang ^c   Takenaka, Astushi ^a,d   Carballido, Joaquin ^b   Tu, Jiangling ^e   Vaughan, Darracott ^a   Tewari, Ashutosh ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER CONTROL; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AWARDS AND PRIZES; DISSECTION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; PELVIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 46249131765     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2008.0097     Document Type: Article

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