Study	Reason for exclusion
Abt 2019	Irrelevant study design (post‐hoc analysis).
Bagla 2017	Irrelevant study design (retrospective chart review for cost analysis).
Bilhim 2015	Letter to editor.
Brown 2019	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
Mullhaupt 2019	Irrelevant study design (cost analysis).
NCT01835860	Irrelevant study design (single group assignment).
NCT02006303	Aborted.
NCT02566551	Withdrawn.
Pereira 2018	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
Qiu 2017	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
Russo 2015	Irrelevant comparator (open simple prostatectomy). We focused on effects of prostatic arterial embolization compared to minimal invasive therapies (Jung 2017).
Steurer 2018	Review.
Wu 2019	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).