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Radical retropubic prostatectomy: How I do it
Author(s) -
Wong Bill TakHing
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
surgical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1744-1633
pISSN - 1744-1625
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-1633.2006.00310.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prostatectomy , prostate cancer , radical retropubic prostatectomy , urology , cancer
Prostate cancer has become one of the leading cancers affecting men in Hong Kong. Radical prostatectomy remains the ideal treatment for the cure of prostate cancer. Evolution in the technique of radical prostatectomy, based on a better understanding of the periprostatic anatomy, has reduced operative morbidity in terms of blood loss, incontinence and impotence, and has rendered radical retropubic prostatectomy a safe operation and the standard surgical approach.