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L. Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy

Prostate cancer treatment by laparoscopic radical prostatectomy recommended as first choice

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, July 7th, 2006

Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy was recommended as the first choice for treating localized prostate cancer.

According to recent research published in the journal European Urology, "Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in major centers guarantees oncologic and functional results equal to open procedures. In our institution this operation was introduced in 2001 after an adequate training in laparoscopic surgery."

"We report the oncologic and functional results after 3 years of experience," explained S. Galli and colleagues, L. Sacco Hospital. "We considered our first 150 patients that had undergone transperitoneal laparoscopic radical...

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