TY - JOUR T1 - Laparoscopic prostatectomy: A promising option in the treatment of prostate cancer JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 113 LP - 121 VL - 71 IS - 2 AU - Andrew P. Steinberg A2 - Gill, Inderbir S. Y1 - 2004/02/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/2/113.abstract N2 - 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. ER -