Male urogenital function after confirmed nerve-sparing total mesorectal excision with dissection in front of Denonvilliers' fascia

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1321-1328

  Kneist, W ^a   Junginger, T ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISSECTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PELVIC NERVE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; URINARY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DISSECTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FASCIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; URINATION DISORDERS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 34447109040     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9008-4     Document Type: Article

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