Positive surgical margin in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: correlation with pathology findings and risk of biochemical recurrence.

Journal: Minerva urologica e nefrologica = The Italian journal of urology and nephrology

Published Date: Mar 30, 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To analyze the correlation of surgical margin status with other findings on final pathology and risk of biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP).

Authors

Jung-Ki Jo

Department of Urology, Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Sung-Kyu Hong

Department of Urology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea.
Seok-Soo Byun

Department of Urology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang, Korea.
Homayoun Zargar
Riccardo Autorino

Department of Urology, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sang-Eun Lee

Department of Urology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea - selee@snubh.org.

Keywords

Aged Biopsy Humans Kaplan-Meier Estimate Male Margins of Excision Middle Aged Neoplasm Grading Neoplasm Recurrence, Local Prostatectomy Prostatic Neoplasms Retrospective Studies Robotics Survival Analysis

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Positive surgical margin in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: correlation with pathology findings and risk of biochemical recurrence.

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