Study design

Retrospective

Study time

2008.1-2010.12

Country

United States

Inclusion criteria

Patients with metastatic PCa were excluded from the study (ICD-9 CM codes 196, 197, 198, and 199). Due to missing variable information, a further 1,426 patients were excluded.

Robots remarks

RARP

Sample size

13535

Topic classification

Intraoperative operation

Keypoint

Patients undergoing minimally invasive RP had higher adjusted rates for postprostatectomy incontinence surgery compared to open approaches, which was attributed to high rate of postprostatectomy incontinence surgery following laparoscopic approach and low rate of postprostatectomy incontinence surgery following perineal approach.

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