Radical retropubic prostatectomy is a standard treatment for organ confined prostate cancer.¹ However greater perioperative morbidity and delayed return to functional status associated with the open surgery has influence on urologists to develop a minimally invasive approach for radical prostatectomy.  In 1997, Schuessler et al² reported the first series of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) but concluded that this technique did not provide any advantages over its open counterpart because of the long operative time and difficulty of the operation.  A few years later French urologists, Guillonneau and Valencien, had proven this was not true and reported the Montsouris technique for laparoscopic ...