| Figure 1 |
a) Specific Patient positioning b) Surgical team |
| Figure 2 |
Port placement |
| Figure 3 |
The bladder is mobilized from the anterior abdominal wall |
| Figure 4 |
The visceral layer of the endopelvic fascia is superficially incised |
| Figure 5 |
The levator muscle and the puboperinealis muscle are dissected and swept laterally |
| Figure 6 |
The tissue overlying the urethra is transected while the assistant pushes the prostate down |
| Figure 7 |
The dorsal vein complex is oversewn |
| Figure 8 |
The periprostatic fascia is bluntly and sharply dissected from the prostatic capsule |
| Figure 9 |
Dissection of the bladder neck can be started |
| Figure 10 |
The ventral circumference of the bladder neck has been devided, The Foley catheter is deflated |
| Figure 11 |
The tip of the catheter is pulled ventrally, opening of the retrotrigonal space |
| Figure 12 |
The fourth roboter arm elevates the vas deferens |
| Figure 13 |
The vasa have been clipped and transected. Dissection of the seminal vessels |
| Figure 14 |
Clipping and transecting of the vessels between the lobes of the seminal vesicles |
| Figure 15 |
Denonvilliers' fascia is cut transversally |
| Figure 16 |
Separation of periprostatic fascia with the NVBs |
| Figure 17 |
Management of the prostatic pedicles |
| Figure 18 |
Dissection towards the apex of the prostata |
| Figure 19 |
Ventral circumference of the urethra is incised |
| Figure 20 |
The rectourethralis muscle is readapted to the transected retrotrigonal muscle layer |
| Figure 21 |
The vesicourethral anastomosis is completed |
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