Positive Surgical Margin Trends in Patients with Pathologic T3 Prostate Cancer Treated with Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

Journal: Journal of endourology
Published Date: Dec 15, 2014

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: We analyzed the trends of positive surgical margin (PSM) location in patients who had pT3 disease at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). We aimed to describe our changing incidence of PSMs in the largest series to date of patients with pT3 disease who were treated by RARP.

Authors

  • Andrew J Lightfoot
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Yu-Kai Su
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Shailen S Sehgal
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Ziho Lee
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Giovanni H Greaves
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Sue-Jean S Yu
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Elton Llukani
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Yu-Chen Su
    Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • David I Lee

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