Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
ESU Course 04
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Location:Room 14, Capital suite (level 3)
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Chair:
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Aims and objectives of this session This course about the technique of robotic assisted prostatectomy responds to several educational objectives:
• Description step by step of the surgical procedure:
– Patient’s position and placement of the trocars (different options)
– Trans-peritoneal or extra-peritoneal approach
– Treatment of the bladder neck
– Dissection of neurovascular bundles
– Apical approach
– Technique of vesico-urethral anastomosis• Technical alternatives:
• Description of the procedure in particular situations:
– Preservation of the seminal vesicles
– Situation of a voluminous prostate with median lobe: procedure after prostate surgery (TURP, adenomectomy)
– Remedial prostatectomy
• Surgical and immediate postoperative complications
• Summary of functional and oncological results based on the last publications.
This course’s objective is to allow interaction between the participants and the teachers interactively.