Prostate carcinoma: Surgical management of regional disease

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welve to twenty-eight percent of patients newly diagnosed with T prostate carcinoma have disease clinically classified as T3.I.' Radical prostatectomy for these patients with clinical T3 prostate carcinoma can be safely performed with acceptable morbidity, but this has not been a widely accepted or performed treatment.Of a combined series of 1024 patients, Quinlan et al. and Petros and Catalona performed a radical prostatectomy in only 7 (0.7%) with clinical T3 disease."'Nevertheless, some patients with T3 disease will request radical prostatectomy, and some published data are available about the results in such cases.