Alexander Beulens

295 Identifying the relationship between postoperative urinary continence and residual urethra stump measurements in robot assisted radical prostatectomy patients Conclusion In this study we performed intraoperative urethral stump measurements using the Kinovea software on surgical videos. The results of this study show that the length and width of the urethra can be measured in surgical videos and correlated with most of the preoperative MRI measurements. The present measurements demonstrate a longer surgical urethral length in continent patients compared to those suffering from incontinency. Further research on the use of intraoperative urethral length measurements could elucidate whether the length of the urethral stump can be used as a predictor of continence with the surgical challenge to save as much urethral length as possible during robot assisted radical prostatectomy.

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