Radical retropubic prostatectomy: How I do it

Author: Wong, Bill Tak-Hing

Source: Surgical Practice, Volume 10, Number 3, August 2006 , pp. 111-113(3)

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Abstract:

Prostate cancer has become one of the leading cancers affecting men in Hong Kong. Radical prostatectomy remains the ideal treatment for the cure of prostate cancer. Evolution in the technique of radical prostatectomy, based on a better understanding of the periprostatic anatomy, has reduced operative morbidity in terms of blood loss, incontinence and impotence, and has rendered radical retropubic prostatectomy a safe operation and the standard surgical approach.

Keywords: prostate cancer; radical prostatectomy; retropubic; nerve sparing

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1633.2006.00310.x

Publication date: 2006-08-01