Robot-assisted prostatectomy: The new standard of care

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 343-352

  Hatiboglu, Gencay ^a   Teber, Dogu ^a   Hohenfellner, Markus ^a  

^a Im Neuenheimer Feld 280   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outcome; Robot assisted prostatectomy; Robotic surgery; Standard of care

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTINENCE; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84859835546     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0743-5     Document Type: Review

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