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Lateral versus anterior approach for bladder neck dissection during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a pair-matched analysis to evaluate urinary continence and surgical margins.

Marco OderdaAlessandro MarquisAlberto SasiaGiorgio CallerisAlessandro DematteisDaniele D'AgateMarco FalconeFederico LavagnoGiancarlo MarraGabriele MontefuscoPaolo Gontero
Published in: Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies : MITAT : official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy (2024)
The lateral approach leads to an anatomical dissection of the bladder neck without increasing the risk of PSMs. However, no significant benefits in terms of continence recovery were demonstrated over the standard anterior approach.
Keyphrases
  • robot assisted
  • radical prostatectomy
  • minimally invasive
  • prostate cancer
  • spinal cord injury
  • urinary tract