Table 1.

Modifications to RALP.

	Modifications	Year introduced	References
Urinary continence	Sling construction	1997	Jorion [18]
	Bladder neck preservation	2002	Deliveliotis et al. [16], Selli et al. [15], and von Bodman et al. [85]
	Intraoperative cooling	2009	Finley et al. [29]
	Pubovesical complex sparing	2011	Asimakopoulos et al. [28]
UVA	Posterior reconstruction	2008	Rocco et al. [19, 86], Coelho et al. [87]
	Anterior reconstruction	2009	Campenni et al. [20], Patel et al. [21]
	Double layer anastomosis	2009	Menon et al. [22], Sammon et al. [23], and Joshi et al. [25], Sutherland et al. [24], Sammon et al. [23], and Hurtes et al. [88]
	Barbed suture	2011	Sammon et al. [26], and Kaushik et al. [27]
NVB sparing	NVB sparing	1991	Quinlan et al. [36], Catalona et al. [39], Dubbelman et al. [38], Rabbani et al. [37], and Walsh et al. [40]
	Veil of Aphrodite	2002	Menon et al. [41, 45]
	Athermal dissection	2007	Tewari et al. [52], Mandhani et al. [56], and Khan et al. [57], Ahlering et al. [58], Chien et al. [59], and Gill et al. [60]
	Tension-free	2007	Kowalczyk et al. [53], Mattei et al. [55]
Bladder drainage	SP drainage	2009	Krane et al. [31], Sammon et al. [32], and Tewari et al. [33]