Table 11.
Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Sexual Potency Outcomes
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Type of nerve sparing (%) |
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Potency (%) |
Overall potency rates (%) |
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| Authors | Year of publication | Patients (N) | Mean/median age (years) | Unilateral NS | Bilateral NS | Follow-up (months) | Unilateral NS | Bilateral NS | 1 months | 3 months | 6 months | 12 months | > 18 months |
| Guilonneau62 | 2002 | 47 (500) | - | - | 100 | 12 | - | 66 | - | - | - | 66a | - |
| Rossweiler38 | 2004 | 41 (850) | 64 | 11.7 | 10.1 | 12 | - | 67 | - | - | - | 67a | - |
| Rozet40 | 2005 | 600 | 62 | 21.30 | 63.6 | 12 | - | 43 | - | - | 43a | - | - |
| Stolzenburg41 | 2005 | 131 | 63.4 | 16.3 | 10.1 | 6 | 13.3 | 47.1 | - | 13 | 27.8 | - | - |
| Rossweiler46 | 2006 | 5824 | 64 | - | - | 12 | 31 | 52.5 | - | - | - | 52.5a | - |
| Goeman45 | 2006 | 550 | 62.4 | 20.7 | 67 | 12 | - | 64 | 22.2b | 28.7b | 47.4b | 78.6b | - |
| Rossweiler69 | 2006 | 357c | - | 44.3 | 55.7 | - | - | 67 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 205d | - | 29.3 | 70.7 | - | - | 76 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Curto44 | 2006 | 425 | 62 | - | 100 | 12 | - | - | - | 30 | 43 | 58.5 | - |
| Touijer33 | 2008 | 130 | 60 | 6 | 88 | 56.1 | |||||||
| Weighted means | - | - | 63.5 | 24.5 | 68.3 | - | 31.1 | 54 | - | 27.3 | 43.2 | 55.1 | - |
a
Bilateral nerve-sparing.
b
Age <60 years.
c
Retrograde nerve-sparing.
d
Antegrade nerve-sparing.
NS = nerve sparing.