Margin control in open radical prostatectomy: What are the real outcomes?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-209

  Cookson, Michael S ^a   Chang, Sam S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Pathology; Prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77249160742     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2009.09.019     Document Type: Review

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