Effect of a Risk-stratified Grade of Nerve-sparing Technique on Early Return of Continence after Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

European Urology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 438-444

  Srivastava, Abhishek ^a   Chopra, Sameer ^a   Pham, Anthony ^a   Sooriakumaran, Prasanna ^a   Durand, Matthieu ^a   Chughtai, Bilal ^a   Gruschow, Siobhan ^a   Peyser, Alexandra ^a   Harneja, Niyati ^a   Leung, Robert ^a   Lee, Richard ^a   Herman, Michael ^a   Robinson, Brian ^b   Shevchuk, Maria ^b   Tewari, Ashutosh ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Continence; Nerve sparing; Prostate cancer; Robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTINENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE SPARING; NERVE SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOT ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL HEALTH INVENTORY FOR MEN SCORE; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY CONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

AGED; FASCIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PELVIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTICS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84872955861     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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