Robotic and open radical prostatectomy: Is there reason to be receptive to change now and in the future?

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 863-865

  Ghavamian, Reza ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONVALESCENCE; COST; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; LAPAROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOUCH; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 69249124963     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.09.65     Document Type: Editorial

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