TABLE 1.

Preoperative clinical tumor characteristics of prostate cancer patients

The values in parentheses for age, prostate volume, preoperative PSA, and PSA density are ranges, LUTS: lower urinary tract symptoms, PSA: prostate-specific antigen, IPSS: international prostate symptom score, QoL: quality of life, ^a: student's t-test, ^b: pearson chi-square test