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Re: 30-Day Mortality and Major Complications after Radical Prostatectomy: Influence of Age and Comorbidity
Affiliation of authors: Local Health Authority of Milan, Milan, Italy
Correspondence to: Antonio Russo, MD, Epidemiology Unit, Local Health Authority of Milan, Corso Italia 19, Milan, Italy (e-mail: arusso@asl.milano.it).
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In a manuscript recently published by the Journal, Alibhai et al. (1) reported that increasing comorbidity was more strongly associated with early complications after radical prostatectomy than age in a Canadian population. They also observed that the risk of postoperative mortality after radical prostatectomy was relatively low for otherwise healthy men who were younger than 80 years of age. We evaluated
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 98: 421-422.