Potency after unilateral nerve sparing surgery: A report on functional and oncological results of unilateral nerve sparing surgery

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Van der Aa, F ^a   Joniau, S ^a   De Ridder, D ^a   Van Poppel, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nerve sparing surgery; Potency; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ONCOLOGY; ORGASM; POTENCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 0037248640     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500626     Document Type: Article

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