Open Radical Cystectomy versus Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Early Outcomes of a Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Radical cystectomy (RC) with urinary diversion (UD) is still considered a complex surgery associated with significant morbidity. Open RC (ORC) remains the reference option of treatment, even if adoption of robot-assisted RC (RARC) is rapidly increasing. To date, all the available randomized controlled trials were characterized by an extracorporeal approach in performing UD, undermining potential benefits of a totally minimally invasive procedure. In this study, we aimed to report perioperative and 6-month outcomes from the first RCT comparing ORC and RARC with totally intracorporeal UD.

Materials and methods

Patients were eligible for randomization if they had a diagnostic transurethral resection of bladder tumor with cT2-4, cN0, cM0 or recurrent high-grade nonmuscle

SUBMITTER: Mastroianni R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12721634 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature