Impact of robotic surgery on sexual and urinary functions after fully robotic nerve-sparing total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 672-678

  Luca, Fabrizio ^a   Valvo, Manuela ^a   Ghezzi, Tiago Leal ^b   Zuccaro, Massimiliano ^a   Cenciarelli, Sabina ^a   Trovato, Cristina ^a   Sonzogni, Angelica ^a   Biffi, Roberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL MOINHOS DE VENTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

nerve sparing surgery; rectal cancer; robotic surgery; sexual dysfunction; total mesorectal excision; urinary dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; ROBOTIC NERVE SPARING TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; ROBOTICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84875230042     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318269d03b     Document Type: Article

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