Does reconstruction of the vesicourethral junction result in improved continence after radical prostatectomy?

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 530-531

  Guillonneau, Bertrand D ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 53949117201     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro1200     Document Type: Short Survey

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