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. 2020 Nov 26;7:587271. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2020.587271

Table 1.

Incidence of vesico-urethral anastomotic stenosis after radical prostatectomy as reported in the last two decades.

First author Year of publication Number of patients Study design Follow-up VUAS incidence
Open retropubic prostatectomy
Borboroglu et al. (12) 2000 467 Single-center mean: 54 months 11%
Hu et al. (13) 2003 2,292 Multicenter N/A 26%
Elliott et al. (11) 2007 3,310 Multicenter median: 32 months 8.4%
Erickson et al. (14) 2009 4,132 Single-center median: 44 months 2.5%
Carlsson et al. (15) 2010 458 Single-center median: 30 months 4.5%
Gillitzer et al. (16) 2010 2,052 Single-center median: 52 months 5.5%
Breyer et al. (17) 2010 695 Single-center median: N/A; ≥ 12 months in all patients 2.6%
Modig et al. (5) 2019 942 Multicenter mean: 24 months 3.6%
Laparoscopic robot-assisted prostatectomy
Carlsson et al. (15) 2010 1,253 Single-center median: 19 months 0.2%
Breyer et al. (17) 2010 293 Single-center median: N/A; ≥ 12 months in all patients 1.4%
Parihar et al. (18) 2014 930 Single-center mean: 23 months 1.6%

VUAS, vesico-urethral anastomotic stenosis.