Meanwhile, if you have a laparoscopic or a robot assisted radical prostatectomy average stay is one night and the patient goes home next day. This is a case in which there are no complications and ...

Steven L. Chang, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues evaluated data from 489,369 men who underwent radical prostatectomy in the United States between 2003–2010.

Recent analyses have shown that da Vinci robotic surgery achieves a 99% reliability rate, with technical issues rarely ...

Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for clinically localized prostate cancer is associated with lower rates of complications than retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), including ...

Abstract 120 Background: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has become one of standard treatments for localized prostate cancer. However, a feasibility of RARP in high elderly patients has ...

Cost was the one area in which the older open surgery was the clear winner: Open radical prostatectomy costs $487 less a case than non-robotic laparoscopy and $1,726 less than robot-assisted ...

Randomized comparison of robot-assisted vs open radical prostatectomy shows similar functional outcomes, but oncologic outcomes require 'cautious interpretation.' ...

Lee J, Kim HR, Heo JE, et al. Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor use in robot assisted radical prostatectomy patients is associated with reduced risk of death: A propensity score matched analysis of ...

Uy M, Millan B, Jones C, et al. Successful same-day discharge for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Presented at ASCO GU 2022; February 17-19, 2022.

HealthDay News — Use of the NeuroSAFE technique, a standardized frozen section analysis that enables accurate real-time detection of positive surgical margins during nerve sparing in robot ...