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Bladder Cancer
Data on bladder cancer detailed by researchers at Wake Forest University, Medical Department
April 1st, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "To report our experience with laparoscopic radical cystectomy and extracorporeal urinary diversion for high-grade muscle invasive bladder cancer in a consecutive series of 48 patients with 3 years of follow-up. From June 1999 to April 2006, 48 patients (42 men and 6 women; mean age 59 years, range 24 to 80) with bladder cancer underwent laparoscopic radical cystectomy and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection at our institution." "Urinary diversion was done extracorporeally through the specimen extraction incision. The mean operating time was 310 minutes, and the mean blood loss was 456 mL. In 1 patient, conversion to open...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-01)
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