When and how should we test the tightness of the vesicourethral anastomosis after retropubic radical prostatectomy?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 388-392

  Mattei, A ^a   Z'Brun, S ^a   Stucki, P ^a   Di Pierro, G B ^a   Danuser, H ^a  

^a LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cystography; Extravasation; Prostate cancer; Retropubic radical prostatectomy; Vesicourethral anastomosis

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; DICLOFENAC;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; CANCER STAGING; CYSTOGRAPHY; CYSTOSTOMY CATHETER; EXTRAVASATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROPUBIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; VESICOURETHRAL ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 79959632167     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323660     Document Type: Article

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