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How Is Nerve-Sparing Surgery Well Performed?

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Surgical treatment of rectal cancer is associated with a risk of autonomic nerve damage, and consequence of this may be sexual and urinary dysfunction. Awareness of the degree of risk for postoperative sexual and urinary dysfunction is important both for the patient and as a standard for appraisal of individual colorectal practice.

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  1. First Surgical Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

    Zoran Krivokapic FRCS & Ivan Dimitrijevic MD

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  1. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Università Cattolica S Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Vincenzo Valentini

  2. Head, Div. Clinical Oncology Research, University Clinic Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Schmoll

  3. Department of Surgery, Leiden Univ Med Ctr, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Cornelis J. H. van de Velde

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Krivokapic, Z., Dimitrijevic, I. (2018). How Is Nerve-Sparing Surgery Well Performed?. In: Valentini, V., Schmoll, HJ., van de Velde, C. (eds) Multidisciplinary Management of Rectal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43217-5_48

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