Table 5.

Comparison of the different surgical approaches

	Abdominal HE	Vaginal HE	Conventional laparoscopic HE	Robotic HE	p
Age at surgery [years]	48.6 (14–90; 11.1)	55.3 (30–90; 13.3)	47.7 (23–81; 9.1)	48.5 (18–87; 9.1)	< 0.001
BMI [kg/m2]	27.8 (14.7–56.6; 7.4)	27.2 (16.8–49; 5.7	26.4 (15.8–48.0; 5.4)	27.7 (16.7–66.4; 7.5)	0.093
Length of stay [days]	10.6 (3–65; 6.8)	7.6 (2–47; 4.0)	5.2 (1–16; 2.3)	5 (0–58; 3)	< 0.001
Uterine weight [g]	670.7 (18–54,800; 3173)	112 (10.4–741; 90.6)	198.5 (27–1935; 187.9)	289.1 (10–6933; 380.7)	< 0.001
Skin-to-skin time [min]	123.5 (15–447; 56.6)	96.2 (9–783; 53.8)	117.2 (41–610; 54.4)	134.2 (17–603; 67.8)	< 0.001

All values are shown as mean (min–max; SD)