Increased body mass index is associated with operative difficulty during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to identify factors associated with surgeon perception of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) difficulty.

Patients and methods

This study surveyed surgeons performing RARP between 2017 and 2018 and asked them to rate operative conditions and difficulty as optimal, good, acceptable, or poor. These answers were stratified as optimal or suboptimal for this study. Associations between surgeon responses and variables hypothesized to affect surgical difficulty, including anatomic factors such as pelvic diameter and prostate volume:pelvic diameter ratio, were assessed.

Results

Between November 2017 and September 2018, a total of 100 patients were prospectively enrolled in the study of which 58 cases were rated as optimal and 42 were rated a

SUBMITTER: Shapiro DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988518 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature