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Innovation and Orientation Challenges: Posterior “Retzius-Sparing” Technique

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Due to rapid tevchnological improvement, robtic surgery has become the frontliner of minimally invasive surgery. In qeust for better surgical outcome, urologist have ventured into different techniques. Retzius-sparing robot assisted radical prostatectomy has allowed surgeons to maintaint the integrity of space of retzius.

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  1. Department of Urology, Urological Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea

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Tuliao, P.H., Rha, K.H. (2016). Innovation and Orientation Challenges: Posterior “Retzius-Sparing” Technique. In: Davis, J. (eds) Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32641-2_16

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