Evaluating the learning curve of experienced laparoscopic surgeons in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-85

  Stolzenburg, Jens Uwe ^a   Qazi, Hasan A R ^a   Holze, Sigrun ^a   Mende, Meinhard ^a   Nicolaus, Martin ^a   Franz, Toni ^a   Ho Thi, Phuc ^a   Dietel, Anja ^a   Liatsikos, Evangelos ^b   Do, Minh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC PROSTATECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING CURVE; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECTUM INJURY; ROBOT ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; VISCERA INJURY;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84872359229     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2012.0262     Document Type: Article

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