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The Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy
(or the nerve-sparing RRP)
Illustration 3 of 8
from Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., and Janet Farrar Worthington
FIG. 8.3 The Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy (Continued)
This is how the surgeon helps create the critical "bloodless field" - carefully cutting the dorsal vein complex, which travels over the urethra and prostate, and carries a great deal of blood
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