Anatomic Restoration Technique: A Biomechanics-based Approach for Early Continence Recovery After Minimally Invasive Radical Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 492-496

  Tan, Gerald Y ^a   Jhaveri, Jay K ^a   Tewari, Ashutosh K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTERIOR MUSCULOFASCIAL PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VESICOURETHRAL ANASTOMOSIS;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; URETER; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 69249203581     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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