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- Title
The impact of nerve sparing on incidence and location of positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy.
- Authors
Moore, Benjamin M.; Savdie, Richard; PeBenito, Ruth A.; Haynes, Anne-Maree; Matthews, Jayne; Delprado, Warick; Rasiah, Krishan K.; Stricker, Phillip D.
- Abstract
Study Type - Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 4 What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Nerve sparing radical prostatectomy has been associated with increased risk of positive surgical margins due to the close anatomical relationship of the neurovascular bundle to the posterolateral aspect of the prostatic fascia. Our study of 945 men who underwent radical prostatectomy be one experienced surgeon found no increased risk of positive surgical margins, whether the cancer was organ confined or extracapsular extension was present. OBJECTIVE
- Subjects
PROSTATE surgery; PROSTATECTOMY; CANCER patients; SURGICAL site; OPERATIVE surgery
- Publication
BJU International, 2012, Vol 109, Issue 4, p533
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10361.x