Review Article
Contemporary Radical Prostatectomy
Table 1
Effect of nerve sparing in radical prostatectomy on sexual function recovery.
| Author | Type | No. of patients | Followup months | Potent (%) | P | UNS | BNS |
| Before and up to 2003 | | | | | | | Quinlan et al. (1991) [43] | RRP | 503 | 18 | 56 | 76 | NA | Weldon et al. (1997) [44] | RPP | 50 | 18 | 68 | 73 | NA | Catalona et al. (1999) [45] | RRP | 858 | 18 | 47 | 68 | NA | Stanford et al. (2000) [46] | RRP | 938 | >18 | 41 | 44 | NA | After 2003 | | | | | | | Kundu et al. (2004) [39] | RRP | 1834 | 18 | 53 | 76 | NA | Harris (2007) [18] | RPP | 140 | 12 | 27 | 49 | 0.02 | Marien and Lepor (2008) [47] | RRP | 1110 | 24 | 44 | 60 | 0.011 | Krambeck et al. (2009) [48] | RRP | 807 | >6 | 53 | 72 | <0.001 | Menon et al. (2007) [49] | RALP | 1142 | 12 | 58 | 70 | NA | Hakimi et al. (2009) [50] | RALP | 60 | 12 | 64 | 77 | NA |
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UNS: Unilateral nerve sparing; BNS: Bilateral nerve sparing; RRP: Radical retropubic prostatectomy; RPP: Radical perineal prostatectomy; RALP: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy; NA: Not applicable.
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