Post-radical prostatectomy management options for positive surgical margins: Argument for observation

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-96

  Moul, Judd W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Positive surgical margin; PSA; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINENCE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GLEASON SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POTENCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57849122011     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2008.04.011     Document Type: Review

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