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. 2010 Dec 19;2011:748616. doi: 10.1155/2011/748616

Table 3.

Oncologic outcomes of extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (EPLRP) series.

Rozet et al. [17] Rassweiler et al. [18] Paul et al. [19] Stolzenburg et al. [20] Tai et al. [16]
Study period 1998–2004 1999–2004 2000–2007 2001–2008 2004–2009
No. institutions 1 1 1 3 1
No. surgeons 4 3 9 3
No. patients 600 500 1115 2400 218
Mean age (yrs) 62 (47–73) 64.0 (43–81) 62.5 (42–81) 63.3 (41–81) 64.6 (45–82)
Median followup (months) 12 40 35.6 34
Mean preoperative PSA (ng/mL) 7.4 11.7 (0.08–93) 9.8 (0.8–99) 9.8 (0.08–93) 16.3 (0.7–185)
Pelvic lymph node dissection (%) 83.4% 41.6% 50.8% 100%
Pathological stage
 pT2 72.0% 59.2% 59.5% 70.5% 62.3%
 pT3a 19.2% 21.4% 22.4% 19.7% 12.4%
 pT3b 8.8% 12.8% 9% 9.4% 16.5%
 pT4 3.8% 6.9% 0.3% 4.2%
 pT1-4N1 1.4% 2.2% 4.6%
Positive surgical margin (%)
 Overall 17.7% 19.0% 26.0% 16.0% 27.1%
 pT2 14.6% 7.4% 16.1% 8.1% 14.6%
 pT3 25.6% 31.8% 34.6% 35.7% 47.9%
PSA recurrence-free survival rate
 3-year 83.0% 84% 82.1%
 5-year 73.1% 83% 74.5%