Contemporary Radical Prostatectomy

Table 3

Perioperative complications in different types of radical prostatectomies.

Author	Type	No. of patients	Blood loss	Blood transfusion (%)	Rectum (%)	Ureter (%)	Lymphocele (%)	Infection (%)
<2000
Dillioglugil et al. (1997) [83]	RRP	472	NA	NA	0.6	0.2	2.2	7.3
Mokulis and Thompson (1997) [84]	RPP	60	NA	8.3	10	NA	0	1.7
Catalona et al. (1999) [45]	RRP	1870	NA	NA	0.05	NA	1	0.8
2000–2004
Lance et al. (2001) [81]	RPP	190	802	15.8	4.9	NA	NA	NA
	RRP	190	1575	10.5	0	NA	NA	NA
Lau et al. (2001) [85]	RRP	1000	NA	NA	0.5	0.1	0.1	NA
Salomon et al. (2002) [86]	RPP	119	NA	15.9	0.8	0.8	1.7	NA
Augustin et al. (2003) [87]	RRP	1243	NA	29	0.4	0.3	2.9	0.7
>2004
Ghavamian et al. (2006) [88]	RRP	70	563	31.4	NA	NA	2.8	4.1
Hu et al. (2006) [89]	RALP	322	NA	1.6	0.6	0.3	0.9	1.9
Ahlering et al. (2006) [90]	RALP	1130	NA	0.3	0.5	NA	NA	0.2
Fischer et al. (2008) [91]	RALP	210	100–300	1	0.5	0	5	5

RRP: Radical retropubic prostatectomy; RPP: Radical perineal prostatectomy; RALP: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy; NA: Not applicable.