Pieter Donker
Retired Dutch urologist and neuro-urologist, Leiden
- Dates
- 1914-1999 (source: EAU Today: Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, a European discovery? dead link )
- Chapters
- IX. The Gland That Stands Before
What the film says
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Was tracing the nerves of the bladder in a stillborn infant under a microscope when Walsh asked where the nerves to the penis ran; replied that he had never looked.
On the timeline
- March 1977: Walsh meets Pieter Donker at a dinner during an international conference. timeline
- 13 February 1981: In Leiden, Walsh and Donker trace the nerves of erection running outside the prostate. timeline
- 1982: Walsh and Donker publish 'Impotence following radical prostatectomy: insight into etiology and prevention' (J Urol 128:492). timeline
Sources
Sources
- EAU Today: Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, a European discovery? Museum or society dead link
- Johns Hopkins Medicine 2020: 40th anniversary of a lifesaving discovery Secondary
- Johns Hopkins Medicine 2024: Radical innovator Secondary