Reply to Gianluca Giannarini, Nazareno Suardi and Alberto Briganti's letter to the editor re: Prasanna Sooriakumaran, Abhishek Srivastava, Shahrokh F. Shariat, et al. A multinational, multi-institutional study comparing positive surgical margin rates among 22 393 open, laparoscopic, and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy patients. Eur Urol. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2013.11.018.
Surgical Intervention Trials Unit, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: sooriakumaran@gmail.com.
Prasanna
P
Sooriakumaran
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Peter
P
Wiklund
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Monique J
MJ
Roobol
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Ewout
E
Steyerberg
Department of Urology, L'Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France.
Rafael
R
Sanchez-Salas
Department of Urology, L'Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France.
Xavier
X
Cathelineau
Department of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
Ashutosh K
AK
Tewari
D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*