Laparoscopic injury and repair of obturator nerve during radical prostatectomy
Received 19 March 2004; accepted 17 June 2004. published online 18 October 2004.
Abstract
A 61-year-old man with bilateral Gleason score 7 (3+4) clinical Stage T1c prostate cancer was treated with laparoscopic bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical prostatectomy. The left obturator nerve was inadvertently transected during left obturator lymph node dissection and repaired by laparoscopic reapproximation.
aSection of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
bDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Reprint requests: Inderbir S. Gill, M.D., M.Ch., Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, A100, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195
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