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During TURP, surgeon takes care to dissect above the verumontonum to prevent injury to
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The correct answer is  Damage to the external sphincter is avoided provided one uses the verumontanum as a guide to the most distal point of the resection. Reference : page1351 Bailey and Love's sho practice of surgery 25th edition