Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy versus open: Comparison of the learning curve of a single surgeon

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1002-1008

  Philippou, Prodromos ^a   Waine, Elizabeth ^a   Rowe, Edward ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTINENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865193822     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2011.0569     Document Type: Article

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