Groups information

Group name

Learning curve surgeons

Groups definition

patients operated on by five younger surgeons in the learning curve (LCSs). LCSs had no previous experience in radical prostatectomy, and the very first RS-RARP procedures of each LCS case are included in the analysis

Groups remarks

After matching

Clinical T stage

T1

105 (41)

T2a

46 (18.0)

T2b

56 (21.9)

T2c

35 (13.7)

T3

15 (5.9)

N stage, M stage