Preserved Postoperative Penile Size Correlates Well with Maintained Erectile Function after Bilateral Nerve-Sparing Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy

European Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 702-707

  Briganti, Alberto ^a   Fabbri, Fabio ^a   Salonia, Andrea ^a   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Chun, Felix K H ^b   Dehò, Federico ^a   Zanni, Giuseppe ^a   Suardi, Nazareno ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^c   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Penile size; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34547166039     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.03.050     Document Type: Article

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