TABLE 2.

Morbidity from salvage radical prostatectomy: review of the literature, with comparison to series described in this paper

	Number of patients	Mean duration, min	Rectal injury, %	Anastomosis stenosis, %	Positive surgical margins, %	Mean follow-up, months	Incontinence, %
sORP
Rainwater and Zincke [20]	30	216	0	17	NR	80	10
Link and Freiha [16]	14	185*	0	7	43	18*	73
Amling et al. [17]	108	NR	6	21	36	NR	51
Heidenreich et al. [19]	21	150	0	12	NR	12.5	24
Stephenson et al. [21]	100	240	7	30	21	58*	61
sLRP/sRALP
Vallancien et al. [6]	7	190	0	0	29	11	29
Stolzenburg et al. [5]	9	148	0	0	NR	12	22
Nuñez-Mora et al. [4]	9	170	0	0	22	27	67
Kaouk et al. (sRALP) [3]	4	125	0	0	50	1	25†
Eandi et al. (sRALP) [18]	18	156	0	17	28	18*	67
Our series (11 sLRP, 4 sRALP)	15	240	1	0	20	8*	46

NR, not reported.

^*Median.

^†In this study, ‘incontinence’ did not include patients who used one pad per day but rarely needed them.