Radical prostatectomy and positive surgical margins: relationship with prostate cancer outcome
Introduction Positive surgical margins (PSMs) are an adverse factor that may predict a worse outcome in patients submitted to radical prostatectomy (RP). However, not all of these cases will evolve to biochemical (BCR) or clinical (CR) recurrence, therefore relationship between PSMs and these recur...
Main Authors: | Ricardo L. R. Felts de La Roca, Isabela Werneck da Cunha, Stephania Martins Bezerra, Francisco Paulo da Fonseca |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
2014-06-01
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Series: | International Brazilian Journal of Urology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-55382014000300306&lng=en&tlng=en |
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