Predictors of positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy at a single institution: Preoperative and pathologic factors, and the impact of surgeon variability and technique on incidence and location

Canadian Journal of Urology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 7479-7486

  Lallas, Costas D ^a   Fashola, Yomi ^a   Den, Robert B ^a   Gelpi Hammerschmidt, Francisco ^a   Calvaresi, Anne E ^a   McCue, Peter ^b   Birbe, Ruth ^b   Gomella, Leonard G ^a   Trabulsi, Edouard J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical recurrence; Positive surgical margins; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGE; BLOOD; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; ORGAN SIZE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84910093534     PISSN: 11959479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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