Randomized controlled trial of barbed polyglyconate versus polyglactin suture for robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy anastomosis: Technique and outcomes

European Urology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 875-881

  Williams, Stephen B ^a   Alemozaffar, Mehrdad ^a   Lei, Yin ^a   Hevelone, Nathanael ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Plaster, Blakely A ^a   Hu, Jim C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Complications; Continence; Quill; Radical prostatectomy; Robotic; Suture; Urine leak

Indexed keywords

MAXON; POLYGLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYSTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOT ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC PROSTATECTOMY ANASTOMOSIS; SUTURE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BOSTON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYGLACTIN 910; POLYMERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78049468996     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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