Bladder neck sparing during robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: Six-year experience

Yilmaz S., Ak E., Gazel E., Yalcin S., Yildiz K. Y., TUNÇ L.

NORTHERN CLINICS OF ISTANBUL, cilt.8, sa.3, ss.269-274, 2021 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.14744/nci.2020.49092
  • Dergi Adı: NORTHERN CLINICS OF ISTANBUL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.269-274
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

OBJECTIVE: Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among men in developed countries. Radical prostatectomy (RP) is the standard surgical treatment for patients with organ-confined disease and robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) procedures get more popular in the past 20 years. The most important factor of continence after RP is the preservation of the functional sphincter mechanisms. Tunc et al. described the novel bladder neck preserving technique in RALRP in 2015. The purpose of this study is to present our long-term results of our novel technique during RALP performed by single surgeon (LT).