Dr. Khurshid Guru answers the question: 'Hospital Stay After Prostatectomy?' March 16, 2009 -- Question: How long will I be in the hospital following my radical laparoscopic, perineal, or retropubic ...

Dr. Uzzo answers the question: 'Success Of Radical Prostatectomy?' Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: How successful is a radical laparoscopic, perineal or retropubic prostatectomy? Answer: There are at least ...

The first direct comparison between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open surgery (radical retropubic prostatectomy) has ended in a tie. Early results from an international, randomized, ...

From 1988 to 2001, 306 men with a PSA <10 ng/ml underwent radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer by the retropubic (n=184), perineal (n=119) and laparoscopic (n=235) approach. In every ...

Robotic surgery or robot-assisted radical prostatectomy is being increasingly used for surgery of prostate cancer and is slowly replacing open surgical procedures. Comparison was made about surgical ...

Radical prostatectomy is an operation to remove the prostate gland and tissues surrounding it. This usually includes the seminal vesicles and some nearby lymph nodes. Radical prostatectomy can cure ...

Assaad El-Hakim, MD, FRCS(C), Fellow in Urology, Cornell Institute of Robotic Surgery, Department of Urology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY ...

Prostatectomy refers to the surgical removal of a part or the whole of the prostate gland. Prostatectomy is the therapeutic approach commonly chosen to treat patients with prostate cancer that has not ...

Between January 2000 and March 2009, 607 patients were treated with RP for clinically localized PC at our institute. Of them, 243 cases were excluded from this analysis because of neo-adjuvant ...