Optical Coherence Tomography of Cavernous Nerves: A Step Toward Real-Time Intraoperative Imaging During Nerve-Sparing Radical Prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-204

  Rais Bahrami, Soroush ^a   Levinson, Adam W ^a   Fried, Nathaniel M ^b   Lagoda, Gwen A ^a   Hristov, Alexandra ^a   Chuang, Ying ^a   Burnett, Arthur L ^a   Su, Li Ming ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PENIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 45849103877     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.084     Document Type: Article

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