Urology
Volume 59, Issue 6 , Pages 884-888 , June 2002

Blood loss during radical retropubic prostatectomy: relationship to morphologic features on preoperative endorectal magnetic resonance imaging

  • Fergus V Coakley

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Fergus Coakley, M.D., Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Box 0628, M-372, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA
    • Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Steven Eberhardt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • David C Wei

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Evan S Wasserman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Stefan B.J Heinze

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Peter T Scardino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Hedvig Hricak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

Received 13 November 2001 ,Revised 4 February 2002 ,Accepted 4 February 2002.

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☆ This study was supported by NIH grant IRGICA76423-0IRI.

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