Robotic and laparoscopic high extended pelvic lymph node dissection during radical cystectomy: Technique and outcomes

European Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 350-355

  Desai, Mihir M ^a   Berger, Andre K ^a   Brandina, Ricardo R ^a   Zehnder, Pascal ^a   Simmons, Matthew ^b   Aron, Monish ^a   Skinner, Eila C ^a   Gill, Inderbir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Laparoscopy; Pelvic lymph node dissection; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON ILIAC ARTERY; CYSTECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEAL CONDUIT; ILIAC ARTERY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIC LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER DISEASE; URETER STRICTURE; URETERAL LEAK; URINARY DIVERSION; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 83955164203     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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