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Article: Small prostate gland more likely to have positive surgical margins.(Urology)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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PARIS -- Patients with smaller prostate glands were at greater risk of positive surgical margins in a retrospective side-specific study of laparoscopic radical prostatectomies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
The finding runs counter to what many surgeons believe, Dr. Fernando P. Secin said in an interview at the annual congress of the European Association of Urology.
In the minds of surgeons, a small gland is an easy case, said Dr. Secin of the department of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Instead, he reported that a gland weighing less than 30 g was one of seven risk factors identified in the study of 407 patients resected by ...