Overcoming the challenges of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Goldstraw, M A ^a   Challacombe, B J ^b   Patil, K ^c   Amoroso, P ^d   Dasgupta, P ^b,d   Kirby, R S ^d  

^a ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c St Peters Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d Prostate Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adhesions; failure; prostatectomy; radical; robot; troubleshoot

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TISSUE ADHESION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 84857045356     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: 14765608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pcan.2011.37     Document Type: Review

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