PART 1: Pre-Operative Considerations 1. Surgical anatomy of the prostate 2. Cadaveric anatomy of structures related to the prostate 3. Indications for radical prostatectomy 4. Clinical predictors of an organ confined prostate cancer 5. The role of imaging techniques in the staging of an organ confined disease PART 2: Technical Considerations 6. Anesthesiological care during and after radical prostatectomy 7. Lymphnode dissection PART 3: Open radical prostatectomy 8. The anatomical radical retropubic prostatectomy step by step 9. Nerve sparing radical prostatectomy 10. Nonnerve sparing radical prostatectomy 11. Nerve grafting 12. Management of intraoperative complications of radical prostatectomy 13. Radical perineal prostatectomy step by step PART 4: Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy 14. Laparoscopic radical reptropubic prostatectomy step by step: Transperitoneal technique 15. Laparoscopic radical reptropubic prostatectomy step by step: Extraperitoneal technique PART 5: Robotically-assisted radical prostatectomy 16. A transition from open to robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: the Vanderbilt experience 17. Radical prostatectomy: Making the Transition from Open to Robotic Surgery: The London experience 18. Radical prostatectomy: Making the Transition from Open to Robotic Surgery: the University of Rochester experience PART 6: Post-operative considerations 19. Postoperative care of the patient 20. Assessment of radical prostatectomy specimens and pelvic lymph nodes 21. Rehabilitation of sexual function 22. Rehabilitation of continence 23. Oncological management after radical prostatectomy

"Nearly 60 authors, all of them experts in urology, anesthesiology, radiology, pathology and oncology, contributed to this textbook on radical prostatectomy, which remains the gold standard for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. […] The authors presentan exhaustive review divided into six specific parts. [...] we recommend this book to allurologists involved in prostate cancer treatment." Prof Paul Meria, European Urology Today, April/May 2008