Complications and Functional Results of Surgery for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer

Table 2

Complication rates after open radical retropubic prostatectomy.

	Joniau	Dillioglugil et al. [11]	Hisasue et al. [12]	Gaylis et al. [13]	Maffezzini et al. [14]	Lepor et al. [15]	Lerner et al. [16]
Number of patients	139	472	123	116	300	1000	812
cT1 % (pT1 %)	0	20.3	44.7	43	(0)	78.5	0
cT2 % (pT2 %)	0	72.7	55.3	57	(66.4)	21.3	0
cT3 % (pT3 %)	100	6.9	0	0	(29.9)	0.2	100
Mean age (years)	62.0	63	66	66.6	65.5	60.3
Mean operation time (min)	105			155
Mean blood loss (mL)	558			872	600		945
Mortality %	0			0	0		0.4
Rectal injury %	0.7	0.6	4.9	0.9	0.3	0.5	1.8
Ureteral injury %	0	0.2	0.8		0.3	0.1
Iliac vessel injury %	0	1.1
Obturator nerve injury %	0.7	0.2	1.6		0.3
Angor/myocardial infarction %	0.7	1.7				0.6	0.4
Other cardiac complications %	0	10.6	0.8			0.2
Pulmonary complications %	0	3.8				0.1
Deep venous thrombosis/pulmonary embolism %	0	2.3	0.8	3.4	0.3	0.3	4
Gastrointestinal complications %	0	5.1	0.8			0.6
Neurological complications %	1.4	1.5				0.2
Other infectious complications %	0	4.7	0.8				0
Prolonged drainage (urine, lymph, blood) %	3.6	2.8	8.9		2	0.7	0.8
Acute retention %	0	0.6			2
Reintervention %	0				1.7	0.5
Woundproblem %	7.2	3.0	13.8	0.9	1	0.8	2.7
Anastomotic stricture at 12 months %	2.9		13.8		0.7	1	9.2
Not dry (in need of pads) at 12 months %	12.2		12.7	20	12		22.1