Current status of robot-assisted radical cystectomy for bladder cancer

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 573-582

  Azzouni, Faris ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COST; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIC LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL CYSTECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINARY DIVERSION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867582751     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2012.144     Document Type: Review

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