Robot-assisted partial prostatectomy for anterior prostate cancer: a step-by-step guide.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe a step-by-step guide to robot-assisted anterior partial prostatectomy (RA-APP) for isolated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-detected anterior prostate cancer (APC).

Patients and methods

After Institutional Review Board approval, over an 8-year period (2008-2015), 17 consenting patients were enrolled in a prospective, single-arm, single-centre, Idea, Development, Evaluation, Assessment and Long-term evaluation of innovative surgery (IDEAL) phase 2a study. The inclusion criteria comprised pre-urethral, low-intermediate risk APC diagnosed by MRI and targeted biopsies. Patient position and port placement were identical to the transperitoneal RA radical prostatectomy procedure. Three steps of dissection were identified in the following order: (i) retrograde

SUBMITTER: Villers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9084536 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature