Study design

multicenter, prospective, randomised, single-blind series

Study time

2017.3-2017.12

Country

Germany

Object

Informed consent (age ≥18 years); RARP with BLND for localised prostate cancer

Inclusion criteria

Lack of ability for informed consent; residence more than 100 km from the study centre; American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) score ≥3; intraoperative conversion to open prostatectomy

Sample size

232

Topic classification

Prediction，Complications

Keypoint

 In addition to a longer operation time and about twice as many complications, patients with a BMI of ≥33.7 kg/m² had a higher PSM rate after RARP. 

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