Abstract The International Society of Urological Pathology Consensus Conference on
Handling and Staging of Radical Prostatectomy Specimens in Boston made …

Abstract The 2009 International Society of Urological Pathology Consensus Conference in
Boston, made recommendations regarding the standardization of pathology reporting of …

CONTEXT: This review focuses on positive surgical margins (PSM) in radical prostatectomy
(RP). OBJECTIVE: To address the etiology, incidence, and oncologic impact of PSM and …

This paper, based on the activity of the Morphology-Based Prognostic Factors Committee of
the 2004 World Health Organization-sponsored International Consultation, describes …

BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) has been
rapidly adopted despite a daunting learning curve with bladder neck dissection as a …

The College of American Pathologists offers these pro-tocols to assist pathologists in
providing clinically useful and relevant information when reporting results of surgical …

Purpose: Length and location of positive surgical margins are independent predictors of
biochemical recurrence after open radical prostatectomy. We assessed their impact on …

BACKGROUND: Puboprostatic ligament preservation has been proposed as a method to
accelerate continence recovery after radical prostatectomy (RP). However, these ligaments …

Context.—Patients with prostatic adenocarcinoma commonly undergo radical prostatectomy,
and it is often difficult and time consuming to handle the resulting specimens and to report …

Objective To evaluate the role of positive surgical margin (PSM) size/focality and location in
relation to risk of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy …