Systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting potency rates after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

  • Vincenzo Ficarra
  • Giacomo Novara
  • Thomas E Ahlering
  • Anthony Costello
  • James A Eastham
  • Markus Graefen
  • Giorgio Guazzoni
  • Mani Menon
  • Alexandre Mottrie
  • Vipul R Patel
  • Van der Poel Henk
  • Raymond C Rosen
  • Ashutosh K Tewari
  • Timothy G Wilson
  • Filiberto Zattoni
  • Francesco Montorsi

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Abstract

Although the initial robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) series showed 12-mo potency rates ranging from 70% to 80%, the few available comparative studies did not permit any definitive conclusion about the superiority of this technique when compared with retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP).

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number3
ISSN0302-2838
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22749850