Impact of the introduction of a robotic training programme on prostate cancer stage migration at a single tertiary referral centre

BJU International

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1222-1230

  Briganti, Alberto ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^a   Sun, Maxine ^a,b   Suardi, Nazareno ^b   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Abdollah, Firas ^a   Bertini, Roberto ^a   Colombo, Renzo ^a   Girolamo, Valerio Di ^a   Salonia, Andrea ^a   Scattoni, Vincenzo ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Guazzoni, Giorgio ^a   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

minimally invasive treatment; prostate cancer; radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW RISK POPULATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROPUBIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY;

AGED; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84878306832     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11464.x     Document Type: Article

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