Tumor Length and Location of Cancer on Biopsy Predict for Side Specific Extraprostatic Cancer Extension
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- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 171 (3) , 1093-1097
Abstract
Purpose: We studied preoperative variables in a contemporary series of men who underwent nonnerve sparing radical prostatectomy in an effort to establish criteria that would predict side sp...Keywords
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