ABSTRACTPURPOSE: To report the positive surgical margins (PSM) rate of Retzius-Sparing Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RS-RARP) in an unselected, real-life cohort of patients treated at a fellowship-training urological department. Overall PSM rates were reported for the entire cohort and for pT2 and pT3 patients separately. We defined clinically significant PSM as any length of >3 mm or multiple PSM regardless of length. Clinically significant PSM was reported in 43 patients (8.1%), and most of them (27 patients) had pT3 disease. CONCLUSIONS: PSM rates of RS-RARP are acceptable and higher in pT3 disease compared to pT2.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2021 02:14 UTC