PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrew P. Steinberg
ED  - Gill, Inderbir S.
TI  - Laparoscopic prostatectomy: A promising option in the treatment of prostate cancer
DP  - 2004 Feb 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 113--121
VI  - 71
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/2/113.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/2/113.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2004 Feb 01; 71
AB  - It is still too soon to know if a laparoscopic approach is as good or even better than open surgical radical prostatectomy, the gold standard. Early data seem to suggest lower intraoperative bleeding rates, less postoperative pain, shorter hospital stay, and similar rates of oncologic cure, return to potency, and urinary continence.