Anatomic grading of nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

European Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 796-802

  Schatloff, Oscar ^a   Chauhan, Sanket ^a,b   Sivaraman, Ananthakrishnan ^a   Kameh, Darian ^a   Palmer, Kenneth J ^a,b   Patel, Vipul R ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nerve sparing; Prostate cancer; Robot assisted radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE; NERVE SPARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOT ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CUES; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FLORIDA; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PENIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84857659496     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.12.048     Document Type: Article

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