Reporting positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy: Time for standardization

BJU International

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Fontenot, Philip A ^a   Mansour, Ahmed M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

biochemical recurrence; positive surgical margins; radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; INCISION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE SECTION;

DECISION MAKING; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84878281398     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11640.x     Document Type: Article

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