Bilateral Cavernous Nerve Interposition Grafting During Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Experience

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 664-668

  Secin, Fernando P ^a   Koppie, Theresa M ^a   Scardino, Peter T ^a   Eastham, James A ^a   Patel, Manish ^a   Bianco, Fernando J ^a   Tal, Renaan ^a   Mulhall, John ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a   Rabbani, Farhang ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

impotence; penis; prostatectomy; sural nerve; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CONTROL; CAVERNOUS NERVE INTERPOSITION GRAFTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MALE; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SURAL NERVE;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSTATECTOMY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845970265     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.09.035     Document Type: Article

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