Table 4. PSM rates of prostatectomy techniques in previous reports.
| PSM rate (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | No. of patients | pT2 | pT3a | pT3b |
| LRP | ||||
| Guillonneau et al.18 | 1 000 | 15.5 | 30.0 | 34.0 |
| Stolzenburg et al. 19 | 700 | 10.8 | 31.2 | — |
| Rozet et al. 20 | 600 | 14.6 | 26.9 | 22.6 |
| Touijer and Guillonneau 21 | 500 | 8.2 | 17.2 | — |
| Rassweiler et al. 22 | 500 | 7.4 | 25.2 | 42.0 |
| Salomon et al. 23 | 137 | 21.9 | 40.8 | — |
| Hara et al. 24 | 136 | 27.5 | 77.3 | 53.8 |
| Soderdahl et al. 25 | 110 | 13.5 | 50.0 | — |
| El-Feel et al. 26 | 100 | 18.1 | 45.0 | 50.0 |
| Present series | 126 | 17.1 | 44.4 | 50.0 |
| ORP | ||||
| Catalona and Smith 27 | 1 778 | — | 20.9 | — |
| Swindle et al. 28 | 1 209 | 6.8 | 19.3 | — |
| Hull et al. 29 | 1 000 | — | 12.8 | — |
| Pettus et al. 30 | 800 | 3.3 | 53.0 | — |
| Salomon et al. 23 | 145 | 18.8 | 52.7 | — |
Abbreviations: LRP, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy; ORP, open radical prostatectomy; PSM, positive surgical margin.