Results of Unilateral Genitofemoral Nerve Grafts with Contralateral Nerve Sparing During Radical Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1161-1164

  Joffe, Rob ^a   Klotz, Laurence H ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DONOR SITE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMORAL NERVE; GENITOFEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE SPARING; PARESTHESIA; PENIS ERECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL NERVE GRAFTING; WALSH TECHNIQUE;

AGED; FEMORAL NERVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249978462     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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