Minato Yokoyama, Wei Chen, Yuma Waseda, Motohiro Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Takeshi Shirakawa, Yohei Shimizu, Tsunehiro Nenohi, Yuki Matsumoto, Taisuke Okumura, Masayasu Urushibara, Masumi Ai, Kiyohide Fushimi, Takashi Fukagai, Masatoshi Eto, Yasuhisa Fujii, Kazuhiro Ishizaka
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate in-hospital fees and surgical outcomes of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC), laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) and open radical cystectomy (ORC) using a Japanese nationwide database. METHODS: All data were obtained from the Diagnosis Procedure Combination database between April 2020 and March 2022. Basic characteristics and perioperative indicators, including in-hospital fees, were compared among the RARC, LRC and ORC groups. Propensity score-matched comparisons were performed to assess the differences between RARC and ORC...
March 28, 2024: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology