Bilateral nerve sparing robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy is associated with faster continence recovery but not with erectile function recovery compared with retropubic open prostatectomy: The need for accurate selection of patients

Oncology Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2445-2450

  Ludovico, Giuseppe Mario ^a   Dachille, Giuseppe ^b   Pagliarulo, Giovanni ^a   D'Elia, Carolina ^c   Mondaini, Nicola ^d   Gacci, Mauro ^e   Detti, Beatrice ^e   Malossini, Gianni ^c   Bartoletti, Riccardo ^d   Cai, Tommaso ^c  

^a MIULLI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b San Giacomo Hospital   (Italy)

^c Santa Chiara Regional Hospital   (Italy)

^d Santa Maria Annunziata Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Laparoscopy; Prostatic neoplasms; Robotics; Surgery; Urinary continence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL NERVE SPARING ROBOTIC ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTINENCE; ERECTION HARDNESS SCORE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROPUBIC OPEN PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84876240574     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2013.2365     Document Type: Article

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