Specialization:
Mr Rick Popert was appointed as a consultant to Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1996, having completed his higher surgical training at Guy's and urological research at King's College Hospital. Mr Popert's clinical expertise is in the comprehensive evaluation and surgery of benign and malignant prostatic disease.
PROSTATE CANCER SURGERY:
- Robotic Prostatectomy with the Da Vinci Robot – Conventional, Retzius Sparing & Salvage Prostatectomy
He successfully transferred his experience from conventional open radical prostatectomy (over 200 cases between 1997 and 2005) to the Da Vinci robotic assisted approach in 2006 and since then has carried out over 800 robotic prostatectomies. He has the UK’s largest experience of salvage prostatectomy following radiotherapy and brachytherapy and has helped to establish a tertiary referral “salvage surgery” clinic at Guy’s Hospital. He is also establishing a “Retzius sparing” surgery programme at Guy’s, in selected cases.
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