Will the Global Economic Downturn Affect Prostate Cancer Care? Pelvic Lymphadenectomy as an Example

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1266-1268

  Moul, Judd W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65049090191     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.03.062     Document Type: Editorial

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