...Zentia Bütow; Stefan Schunk; Martin Janssen; Stefan Gräber; Matthias Saar; Jörn Kamradt; Stefan Siemer; Michael Stöckle; Carsten-Henning Ohlmann Purpose: Positive surgical margins (PSM) during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) negatively influence patients' prognosis. The aim of our study...

...Anke Richters; Joris Derks; Laurent M.C.L. Fossion; Paul J.M. Kil; Rob H.A. Verhoeven; Mieke J. Aarts Introduction: Additional insight in the occurrence and number of positive surgical margins (PSM) and the potential consequences is needed, since earlier studies show divergent results. This study...

...: To analyze positive surgical margins (PSM) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in the overall population and in patients previously treated with transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Materials and Methods: 2,408 patients treated with RP for clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) were consecutively...

... positivity, and maximum percent cancer) on preoperative biopsy and had worse radical specimen Gleason sums (p < 0.001), percent cancer (p < 0.001), and pathological stage (p = 0.016). 11.5% of the men in the small prostate group suffered a positive surgical margin (PSM) compared to 8.3 and 5.6...

...Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg; Panagiotis Kallidonis; James Hicks; Minh Do; Anja Dietel; George Sakellaropoulos; Abdulrahman Al-Aown; Evangelos Liatsikos Objective: The current study investigates the effect of bladder neck (BN) preservation on postoperative continence and positive surgical margins (+SMs...

... of progression in organ-confined prostate cancers (stage pT2), according to the location of positive surgical margins. Materials and Methods: Between 1988 and 2001, 538 consecutive men underwent radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. All patients had preoperative physical examinations, serum PSA...