2008 Whitmore Lecture: Radical prostatectomy-where we were and where we are going

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 246-250

  Walsh, Patrick C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 65349114709     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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