Early experience with intraoperative cavernous nerve stimulation with penile tumescence monitoring to improve nerve sparing during radical prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 537-542

  Klotz, Laurence ^a,b   Herschorn, Sender ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PENIS ERECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032188759     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00319-7     Document Type: Article

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