Because of the different amount of patients underwent a procedure of nerve-sparing prostatectomy in both groups a valuable comparison of pre - and postoperative sexual symptom scores could not be performed.
Such observation is interesting from morphological point of view and may be also clinically helpful in open and endoscopic procedures of suprascapular nerve decompression.
Future studies should concentrate on the further validation of clinical examination procedures for nerve function and mechanosensitivity.
Of the four patients (3.6%) who failed the procedures of the nerve-preserving surgery, three were female and one was male (Table 4).
This procedure allowed very accurate restoration of nerve structures and is believed to be the first time this approach has been used, surgeons said.
This can explain the high rate of pT3 patients and the low rate of nerve sparing procedure of the whole population, compared to other centers experience.
According to the classification and definition of nerve block procedures proposed by Hadzic et al. according to the difficulty of their performance and the time required for mastering them [ 7], three of these four PNBs are intermediate blocks.
Piezosurgery has increased security during surgery, especially for delicate procedures associated with a high risk of nerve injury.
This work represents a logical step toward the development of synthetic bilayer NGCs that are not only reliable during surgical procedures but also promising in terms of nerve regeneration and functional recovery.
