Professor Christopher Coombs

Honorary, Department of Surgery and Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Growing nerves to restore erectile function

Research is showing that a new microsurgery procedure to regrow nerves to the penis severed during a prostatectomy can successfully restore a man’s ability to have an erection

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