Annual prostatectomy volume is related to rectal laceration rate after radical prostatectomy.

  • Jan Schmitges
  • Quoc-Dien Trinh
  • Maxine Sun
  • Firas Abdollah
  • Marco Bianchi
  • Lars Budäus
  • Jens Hansen
  • Christian Eichelberg
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Mani Menon
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Markus Graefen
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

To examine the effect of annual prostatectomy volume (APV) on contemporary intraoperative rectal laceration (RL) rates after radical prostatectomy.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0090-4295
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22469573