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

Pathological T stage

T0

1 (0.4)

T2

186 (72.6)

T3a

54 (21.1)

>T3b

15 (5.9)

Pathological N stage

N0

138 (55.2)

≥N1

17 (6.8)

Pathological Gleason Score (GS)

GS 6

120 (46.9)

GS 7

102 (39.8)

GS 8-10

34 (13.3)

Pathological ISUP grade