Urology
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Page 1030, November 2004

Laparoscopic injury and repair of obturator nerve during radical prostatectomy

  • Massimiliano Spaliviero

      Affiliations

    • Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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  • Andrew P. Steinberg

      Affiliations

    • Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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  • Jihad H. Kaouk

      Affiliations

    • Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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  • Mihir M. Desai

      Affiliations

    • Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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  • Warren C. Hammert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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  • Inderbir S. Gill

      Affiliations

    • Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint 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

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.

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PII: S0090-4295(04)00811-8

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2004.06.046

Urology
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Page 1030, November 2004