Predictive Significance of Surgical Margin Status After Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer During PSA Era

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1203-1207

  Mann, M J ^a   DeCastro, G J ^a   Desai, M ^a   Benson, M C ^a   McKiernan, J M ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56449084666     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.04.068     Document Type: Article

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