The role of the prostatic vasculature as a landmark for nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

European Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 571-576

  Patel, Vipul R ^a,b   Schatloff, Oscar ^a   Chauhan, Sanket ^a,b   Sivaraman, Ananthakrishnan ^a   Valero, Rair ^c   Coelho, Rafael F ^d   Rocco, Bernardo ^e   Palmer, Kenneth J ^a,b   Kameh, Darian ^a  

^a Global Robotic Institute at Florida Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^d HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nerve sparing; Prostate cancer; Robot assisted radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84856405231     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.12.047     Document Type: Article

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