Preservation of Ejaculation in Patients Undergoing Nerve-Sparing Postchemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Metastatic Testicular Cancer

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 328-331

  Pettus, Joseph A ^a   Carver, Brett S ^a   Masterson, Timothy ^a   Stasi, Jason ^a   Sheinfeld, Joel ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EJACULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; TERATOMA; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EJACULATION; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649103533     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.08.501     Document Type: Article

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