Int Surg
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The purpose of this study was to describe a new simplified technique for facilitating vesicourethral anastomosis in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. After prostate removal, an approximately 15-cm-long absorbable suture with one three-eighths arc needle is passed from the outside in on the full thickness of the bladder neck at the 9 o'clock position and then from inside out on the full thickness of the urethra at the 9 o'clock position. It is knotted with the suture tail. ⋯ We present a new simplified method for vesicourethral anastomosis. The method takes little operating time and is easy for novice laparoscopists to master. Moreover, this technique has low rates of urinary leakage and bladder neck stricture.