Comparative cost-effectiveness of robot-assisted and standard laparoscopic prostatectomy as alternatives to open radical prostatectomy for treatment of men with localised prostate cancer: a health technology assessment from the perspective of the UK National Health Service.

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Published in Eur Urol on March 07, 2013

Authors

Andrew Close1, Clare Robertson, Stephen Rushton, Mark Shirley, Luke Vale, Craig Ramsay, Robert Pickard

Author Affiliations

1: School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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