Table 1: Summary of all studies about Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.
First author & year |
Study design |
Participants |
RS-RARP |
C-RARP |
Mean age (years) |
Risk of bias |
Chang 2018 [21] |
Case-control |
60 |
30 |
30 |
66.2 |
Unclear |
Dalela 2017 [18] |
RCT |
120 |
60 |
60 |
61.2 |
Low |
Eden 2017 [20] |
Retrospective |
80 |
40 |
40 |
64 |
Unclear |
Ghanem 2017 [9] |
Prospective |
102 |
51 |
51 |
61.9 |
Unclear |
Kiat Lim 2014 [12] |
Retrospective |
100 |
50 |
50 |
65.9 |
Unclear |
Menon 2017 [11] |
RCT |
Low |
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Sayyid 2017 [22] |
Prospective |
200 |
100 |
100 |
61.5 |
Unclear |
Tobias Machado 2017 [26] |
Prospective |
60 |
30 |
30 |
63.9 |
Unclear |
RCT = Randomised Controlled Trial; RS-RARP = Retzius-Sparing; C-RARP = Conventional Approach.