Image-guided robotic interventions for prostate cancer

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 452-462

  Sridhar, Ashwin N ^a   Hughes Hallett, Archie ^a   Mayer, Erik K ^a   Pratt, Philip J ^b   Edwards, Philip J ^a   Yang, Guang Zhong ^b   Darzi, Ara W ^a   Vale, Justin A ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; ERGONOMICS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84881615427     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2013.129     Document Type: Review

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