Predictors of Positive Surgical Margins After Laparoscopic Robot Assisted Radical Prostatectomy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2682-2688

  Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a   Novara, Giacomo ^a   Secco, Silvia ^a   D'Elia, Carolina ^a   Boscolo Berto, Rafael ^a   Gardiman, Marina ^a   Cavalleri, Stefano ^a   Artibani, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

neoplasm; prostatectomy; prostatic neoplasms; residual; robotics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; GLEASON SCORE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 71849093166     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.08.037     Document Type: Article

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