Does robotic prostatectomy meet its promise in the management of prostate cancer?

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 184-191

  Huang, Kuo How ^a,b   Carter, Stacey C ^a   Hu, Jim C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continence; Oncological; Open retropubic radical prostatectomy; Outcomes; Potency; Prostate cancer; Robotic assisted radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OPEN RETROPUBIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; ROBOTIC ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84878705628     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-013-0327-8     Document Type: Article

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