Cavernous nerve graft reconstruction during radical prostatectomy or radical cystectomy: Safe and technically feasible

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 56-60

  Anastasiadis, A G ^a   Benson, M C ^a   Rosenwasser, M P ^a   Salomon, L ^a   El Rashidy, H ^a   Ghafar, M A ^a   McKiernan, J M ^a   Burchardt, M ^b   Shabsigh, R ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Radical cystectomy; Radical prostatectomy; Sural nerve grafts

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTECTOMY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPERIENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICROSURGERY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PENIS ERECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURAL NERVE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 0037248790     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500613     Document Type: Article

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