Table 5.
Complication rates of pc-RPLND according to grade III–V of the Clavien-Dindo classification—survey of the literature
| Complications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caseload | Grade III–IV | Grade V | |||||
| First author | Ref # | Year | Institution/country | n | pts/year | % | % |
| Hendry a | 32 | 2002 | London /UK | 442 | 19.2 | 5.6 | 1.1 |
| Potteka | 27 | 2004 | Hamburg/Ger | 207 | 10.4 | 15.9 | 0 |
| Spiessa | 28 | 2006 | Houston/USA | 236 | 10.3 | 23.3 | 1.3 |
| Williamsa | 8 | 2009 | Boston/USA | 92 | 11.5 | 9.8 | 0 |
| Flechona | 29 | 2010 | Lyon/France | 151 | 13.0 | 14.6 | 0.7 |
| Subramanian | 15 | 2010 | Cleveland/USA | 96 | 13.0 | 7 | 1 |
| Luz | 30 | 2010 | Montreal/Can | 73 | 4.9 | 19.2 | 0 |
| Djaladat | 33 | 2012 | Los Angeles/USA | 85 | 12.1 | 1.2 | 0 |
| Cary | 12 | 2015 | Indiana/USA | 755 | 83.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| Considine | 34 | 2016 | Dublin/Ireland | 78 | n.a. | 9.0 | 0 |
| Dusaud | 35 | 2016 | Multicenter/France | 469 | n.a. | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| Wells | 31 | 2016 | Multicenter/UK | 162 | n.a. | 17.2 | 0 |
| Paffenholz | 36 | 2018 | Cologne/Ger | 162 | 10.8 | 7.4 | 0 |
| Hiester | 37 | 2019 | Düsseldorf/Ger | 171 | 10.7 | 5 | 1 |
| Gerdtsson | 38 | 2020 | Multicenter Sweden/Norway | 97 | 5.0 | 12.3 | 0.3 |
| Blok | 39 | 2020 | Utrecht/NL/2 ctrs | 124 | n.a. | 9.7 | 1.6 |
| Present series | 2020 | Hamburg/Ger/2 ctrs | 146 | 11.1 | 14.4 | 0 |
n.a not available, ctrs centers, pts patients, Can Canada, Ger Germany, NL Netherlands, UK United Kingdom
aThese studies did not report according to the Clavien-Dindo system. In these series, data were rated in analogy to the system, and deaths were considered grade V
Caseloads were calculated from published reports according to numbers of patients and time span of patient accrual