Transverse versus vertical camera port incision in robotic radical prostatectomy: Effect on incisional hernias and cosmesis

Urology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 586-590

  Beck, Shawn ^a   Skarecky, Douglas ^a   Osann, Kathy ^a   Juarez, Reina ^a   Ahlering, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; FOLLOW UP; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SCAR; SCREENING TEST; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSVERSE MIDLINE CAMERA PORT INCISION; VERTICAL MIDLINE CAMERA PORT INCISION;

CICATRIX; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 80052332279     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.03.067     Document Type: Article

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