Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with a pathologic prostate specimen weight ≥100 grams versus ≤50 grams: Surgical, oncologic and short-term functional outcomes

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-30

  Labanaris, Apostolos P ^a   Zugor, Vahudin ^a   Witt, Jorn H ^a  

^a St Antonius Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional outcomes; Large prostate glands; Oncologic outcomes; Prostate cancer; Robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84872610210     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342969     Document Type: Article

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