Rationale for and results of nerve grafting during radical prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1016-1019

  Scardino, P T ^a   Kim, E D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EDITORIAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0035015263     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(01)01008-1     Document Type: Editorial

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