Anatomical grades of nerve sparing: A risk-stratified approach to neural-hammock sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP)

BJU International

Volumn 108, Issue 6 B, 2011, Pages 984-992

  Tewari, Ashutosh K ^a   Srivastava, Abhishek ^a   Huang, Michael W ^a   Robinson, Brian D ^b   Shevchuk, Maria M ^b   Durand, Matthieu ^a   Sooriakumaran, Prasanna ^a   Grover, Sonal ^a   Yadav, Rajiv ^a   Mishra, Nishant ^a   Mohan, Sanjay ^a   Brooks, Danielle C ^a   Shaikh, Nusrat ^a   Khanna, Abhinav ^a   Leung, Robert ^a  

^a LeFrak Institute of Robotic Surgery   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

erectile dysfunction; nerve sparing; neural hammock; prostate cancer; robotic prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL HAMMOCK SPARING; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DISSECTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052836392     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10565.x     Document Type: Article

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