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Alternative Approaches to Nerve Sparing: Techniques and Outcomes

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The preservation of sexual potency after prostatectomy has always been the topic of much anxiety and debate. While cancer control and urinary continence are of supreme importance, the preservation of sexual function completes the trifecta that both patient and surgeon strive to achieve. Over the decades open nerve sparing radical prostatectomy has continued to evolve from its early rudimentary beginnings into the more refined techniques that we see today. However, while we have seen considerable advances in recent times the limitations in visualization and dissection of the bundle have continued to provide a challenge to even the most experienced surgeon.

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  1. Department of Urology, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Can Öbek MD, FEBU

  2. Department of Urology, University of Istanbul Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Beslktas, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ali Rýza Kural MD

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  1. Center for Robotic and Computer-Assisted Surgery and for Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

    Vipul R. Patel MD (Director, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics) (Director, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics)

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Öbek, C., Kural, A.R. (2007). Alternative Approaches to Nerve Sparing: Techniques and Outcomes. In: Patel, V.R. (eds) Robotic Urologic Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-704-6_19

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