Epidural anesthesia and cancer recurrence rates after radical prostatectomy

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-112

  Tsui, Ban C H ^a   Rashiq, Saifudin ^a   Schopflocher, Donald ^a   Murtha, Albert ^a   Broemling, Sunita ^a   Pillay, Jennifer ^a   Finucane, Brendan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MORPHINE SULFATE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; ROPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FOLLOW UP; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77950342468     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-009-9214-7     Document Type: Article

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