Simple method to predict return of continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1451-1455

  Skarecky, Douglas ^a   Morales, Blanca ^a   Chang, Alexandra ^a   Ahlering, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; ROBOTICS; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROFLOWMETRY;

HUMANS; INCONTINENCE PADS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 80052618440     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2011.0013     Document Type: Article

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