UK radical prostatectomy outcomes and surgeon case volume: Based on an analysis of the British Association of Urological Surgeons Complex Operations Database

BJU International

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 346-354

  Vesey, Sean G ^a   McCabe, John E ^a   Hounsome, Luke ^b   Fowler, Sarah ^c  

^a SOUTHPORT AND ORMSKIRK HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b South West Public Health Observatory ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c British Association of Urological Surgeons   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

outcome; prostate cancer; prostate size; radical prostatectomy; surgeon volume

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL RECURRENCE; BLEEDING; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ORGAN WEIGHT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE WEIGHT; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON CASE VOLUME; SURGICAL APPROACH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84855925903     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10334.x     Document Type: Article

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