What are the risks involved in the classical surgery and how effective is it ?
Besides those inherent to every surgical procedure, the most common are nerve damage and infection, but both are less than 1% in expert hands. When there is nerve damage one has to remember that the patient is not going to be paralyzed, it is only one nerve that will be affected, this will produce weakness or numbness on its territory. There can be some other rare complications of bladder, sexual or bowel function, as well as of bleeding.
