Prevalence and risk factors of contralateral extraprostatic extension in men undergoing radical prostatectomy for unilateral disease at biopsy: A global multi-institutional experience

Bienz, Marc; Hueber, Pierre-Alain; Trudeau, Vincent; Alenizi, Abdullah; Valdivieso, Roger; Alom, Modar; Balbay, Mevlana; Canda, Abdullah; Mouraviev, Vladimir; Albala, David; El-Hakim, Assaad; Trinh, Quoc-Dien; Latour, Mathieu; Saad, Fred; Zorn, Kevin

doi:10.5489/cuaj.2786

Prevalence and risk factors of contralateral extraprostatic extension in men undergoing radical prostatectomy for unilateral disease at biopsy: A global multi-institutional experience

Bienz M., Hueber P., Trudeau V., Alenizi A. M. , Valdivieso R., Alom M., ...More

CUAJ-CANADIAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, vol.9, 2015 (Journal Indexed in SCI)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 9
Publication Date: 2015
Doi Number: 10.5489/cuaj.2786
Title of Journal : CUAJ-CANADIAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL

Abstract

Introduction: We assessed the incidence of contralateral prostate cancer (cPCa), contralateral EPE (cEPE) and contralateral positive surgical margins (cPSM) in patients diagnosed preoperatively with unilateral prostate cancer and evaluated risk factors predictive of contralateral disease extension.