Total perineal prostatectomy for carcinoma. Indications and results.
In 34 selected patients with prostatic carcinoma treated with total perineal prostatovesiculectomy, the morbidity was low and mortality nil. Fourteen patients were alive and well for over five years and 12 patients are alive and well for less than five years at the time of report. Six patients were dead, two with prostatic carcinoma. Two of the survivors had recurrent carcinoma.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*