Contemporary Radical Prostatectomy

Table 4

Recovery of continence rates following RRP, RPP, and RALP.

Author	Type	No. of patients	Criteria	Urinary continence (%)
				3 months	12 months	24 months
Eastham et al. (1996) [96]	RRP	581	No pad	65	92	95
Harris and Iselin (2003) [97]	RPP	508	No pad	62	96	NA
Roumeguere et al. (2003) [98]	RRP	51	No pad	62.5	83.9	NA
Lepor et al. (2004) [99]	RRP	621	No pad	74.4	92.4	97.1
Matsubara et al. (2005) [92]	RPP	41	No pad	65	87	NA
Menon et al. (2007) [49]	RALP	1142	No pad	NA	84	NA
Zorn et al. (2007) [61]	RALP	161	No pad	47	90	92
Krambeck et al. (2009) [48]	RRP	564	No pad	NA	93.7	NA
		286	No pad	NA	91.8	NA

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