Nerve Monitoring Articles & Analysis
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Objectives Preservation of nerves during da Vinci prostatectomy (dVP) has been clinically proven to be critical to preservation of urinary function and surgeon perception has been shown to be a poor predictor of nerve location during dVP. Despite this evidence, opinions still vary on the ability of surgeons to use anatomic landmarks to accurately identify these ...
Background Since Walsh and Donker first introduced the anatomic nerve-sparing technique for retropubic radical prostatectomy1 (RRP) in the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer, the importance of minimizing damage to the neurovascular bundle (NVB) has been recognized as a critical element for the preservation of potency and urinary continence post-prostatectomy. Although originally ...