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Volume 76, Issue 5 , Pages 1136-1137 , November 2010

Residual Prostate Tissue After Radical Prostatectomy: Acceptable Surgical Complication or Treatment Failure?

Received 13 November 2009 ,Accepted 8 December 2009.

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