Is there correlation of nerve-sparing status and return to baseline urinary function after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-493

  Berry, Tristan ^a   Tepera, Christopher ^a   Staneck, David ^a   Barone, Bethany ^a   Lance, Raymond ^a   Fabrizio, Michael ^a   Given, Robert ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NERVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SURVIVAL; INNERVATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 65549144257     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2008.0222     Document Type: Article

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