title: [Radical prostatectomy: our experience].
abstract: Between July 1989 and June 1994 32 men (48-73 years old) underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy for prostate cancer. 26 patients (70%) presented with symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction. The primary tumour was understaged preoperatively in 5 patients (15.5%). At follow-up (6-66 months, average 24) significant urinary incontinence not occurred in our patients; sixty-two per cent reported a substantial problem with reduced or absent erection. A total of 23 patients was free of clinical or biochemical progression, observed in 28% of cases as distant or local progression. Radical prostatectomy is being performed with increasing frequency: trends in morbidity have been identified.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Urologia, Policlinico S. Marco, Zingonia, Bergamo.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tombolini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruoppolo
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fenice
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bellorofonte
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zaatar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagliaferri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cogni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dell'Acqua
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Ferri
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Prostatectomia radicale: la nostra esperienza.