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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Urology Volume 2012, Article ID 702412, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/702412 Clinical Study Significance of the Intraoperative Methylene Blue Test for Postoperative Evaluation of the Vesicourethral Anastomosis J. N. Nyarangi-Dix,1 S. Pahernik,1 J. L. Bermejo,2 L. Prado,1 and M. Hohenfellner1 1 Department of Urology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to J. N. Nyarangi-Dix, jnyarangidix@yahoo.de Received 28 February 2012; Accepted 25 May 2012 Academic Editor: Maxwell V. Meng Copyright © 2012 J. N. Nyarangi-Dix et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We prospectively investigated whether routine evaluation of the vesicourethral anastomosis (VUA) after radical prostatectomy can be waived. Primary integrity of the VUA was analysed by an intraoperative methylene-blue test (IMBT) and postoperatively by conventional cystography. Data on the IMBT, contrast extravasation and prostate volume as well as pad usage were collected prospectively. Significantly more patients with a primary watertight anastomosis demonstrated by the MBT had no leakage in the postoperative cystography (P 0.001). In a multivariate logistic regression with adjustment for prostate size and surgeon, the positive correlation between IMBT and postoperative cystography remained statistically significant (P = 0.001). The IMBT is easy to perform, inexpensive, and timesaving. With it postoperative evaluation of VUA for integrity can be waived in