title: Management of patients with positive surgical margins following radical prostatectomy.
abstract: The increase in diagnosis of patients with prostate cancer is related to a variety of factors, most notably the availability of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). The article explores the various stages of prostate cancer and a variety of techniques for clinically staging the disease including digital rectal examination, ultrasonography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging in relation to positive surgical margins.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Richie
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen