Detrusorrhaphy during Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: Early Recovery of Urinary Continence and Surgical Technique

Figure 4

Schematic illustrations of the detrusorrhaphy technique. (A) In the standard narrowing technique, which simply sutures both wings of the dissected bladder and (a) some of the sutured detrusor muscles are inverted and do not contribute to continence recovery and may be discarded. (B) The point of the detrusorrhaphy technique is “zigzag” suturing and (b) this aims to reconstruct a physiologically and anatomically ideal form to thicken and strengthen the deteriorated muscles of detrusor during the posterior dissection of the bladder.