Overcoming the Learning Curve for Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-47

  Freire, Marcos P ^a   Choi, Wesley W ^a   Lei, Yin ^a   Carvas, Fernando ^a   Hu, Jim C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy; Robotic surgical technique

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 75249104796     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2009.11.005     Document Type: Review

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