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Vol. 148 No. 4950 (2018)

Seminal vesicle sparing robotic radical prostatectomy – no different interpretation of postoperative PSA follow-up required?

  • Patrick Betschart
  • Aurelius Omlin
  • Dominik Abt
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2018.14698
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148:w14698
Published
04.01.2019

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