Editor's comment: undergrading and Understaging in Prostate Cancer
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Undergrading and understaging in patients with clinically insignificant prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy.
PURPOSE The aim of our study is to evaluate the undergrading and understaging rates in patients with clinically localized insignificant prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between July 2005 and July 2008, 406 patients underwent radical prostatectomy for clinical localized prostate cancer in our hospital. Based on preoperative data, 93 of these patients f...
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عنوان ژورنال: International braz j urol
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1677-5538
DOI: 10.1590/s1677-55382010000300001