Letters to the Editor/ErrataRE: THE IMPACT OF OPEN RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY ON CONTINENCE AND LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS: A PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT USING VALIDATED SELF-ADMINISTERED OUTCOME INSTRUMENTS
Letters to the Editor/ErrataRE: THE IMPACT OF OPEN RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY ON CONTINENCE AND LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS: A PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT USING VALIDATED SELF-ADMINISTERED OUTCOME INSTRUMENTS
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致编辑的信/勘误表:开放式根治性耻骨后前列腺切除术对节制和下尿路症状的影响:使用经过验证的自我管理结果工具进行前瞻性评估
DOI:
10.1097/01.ju.0000154139.70090.6c
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2005
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通讯作者:
L. Kaçi
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作者:
H. Lepor;L. Kaçi
Prostate Cancer Index. They consistently achieved a commendable greater than 94% response rate at 4 intervals postoperatively. The improvement in lower urinary tract symptoms may serve as a reason for individual patients opting for surgery in favor of any form of radiotherapy. The study confirms useful preoperative and postoperative counseling information that continence can continue to improve for up to 2 years following surgery. In this regard no factors, including age, baseline American Urological Association score, Gleason score of prostate biopsy, estimated blood loss, bilateral nerve sparing, and presence or absence of benign prostatic glands at the apical resection margin, were identified that predicted early return to continence. We noted with interest that neither pelvic floor exercise nor bladder neck preservation was mentioned in the methodology and discussion.Although open radical retropubic prostatectomy following the anatomical principles popularized by Walsh is now a well established uro-oncological procedure worldwide, 1 controversies and differences still exist in the execution of the operation and postoperative management. The role of pelvic floor exercise is one such controversy. While some urologists emphasize this practice, and educate the patient either preoperatively or postoperatively with varying degrees of professional assistance, others consider formal pelvic floor exercise an unnecessary waste of resources. 2, 3 It would be interesting to know the practice of the authors.