Francesca Ambrosini, Sophie Knipper, Derya Tilki, Hans Heinzer, Georg Salomon, Uwe Michl, Thomas Steuber, Randi M Pose, Lars Budäus, Tobias Maurer, Carlo Terrone, Pierre Tennstedt, Markus Graefen, Alexander Haese
PURPOSE: To compare oncological, functional, and surgical outcomes of a large cohort of patients who underwent open retropubic radical prostatectomy (ORP) or robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data from 18,805 RPs performed with either the open or the robot-assisted approaches at a single tertiary referral center between 2008 and 2022 were analyzed. The impact of surgical approach on biochemical recurrence-free survival, salvage radiotherapy-free survival, and metastasis-free survival was analyzed by log-rank test and Kaplan-Meier analysis in a propensity score (PS)-based matched cohort...
March 13, 2024: World Journal of Urology