BNS: Bilateral nerve sparing; ED: Erectile dysfunction ... With the advent of robotic surgery and its use during radical prostatectomy, surgeons have been able to better identify those tissue ...

Methods Patients, aged <68 yrs, with adenocarcinoma of the prostate (Gleason ≤ 7, normal preoperative erectile function [EF]) were randomized post-nsRP 1:1:1 to 9-month treatment with ...

Six weeks later, after much research and deliberation, I underwent a radical robotic nerve-sparing prostatectomy. That ...

For surgeons, this awareness has translated into greater efforts in tissue sparing and a transition to less-radical surgery ... tissue during nerve-sparing prostatectomy, sparing more-proximal ...

said in about 40 or 50% of cases where surgeons think they need to be very radical, and take the nerve [along] with the prostate cancer, "are actually wrong and could have spared the nerve".

80-90 percent of our radical prostatectomy patients under the age of 60 retain both nerves following surgery, nerve preservation allows men to have normal intercourse within 1-4 years following ...