Preoperative erectile function represents a significant predictor of postoperative urinary continence recovery in patients treated with bilateral nerve sparing radical prostatectomy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 569-574

  Gandaglia, Giorgio ^a   Suardi, Nazareno ^a   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Capitanio, Umberto ^a   Abdollah, Firas ^a   Salonia, Andrea ^a   Nava, Luciano ^a   Colombo, Renzo ^a   Guazzoni, Giorgio ^a   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a   Briganti, Alberto ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

erectile dysfunction; prostate; prostatectomy; prostatic neoplasms; urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL NERVE SPARING RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; ONSET AGE; PENIS ERECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; URINE CONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84855609212     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.10.034     Document Type: Article

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