Intrapelvic fat makes robot-assisted radical prostatectomy difficult
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Retzius-Sparing Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
Published on: May 19, 2022
Yoshifumi Kadono1, Satoru Ueno2, Tomoyuki Makino2
1Department of Integrative Cancer Therapy and Urology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan yskadono@yahoo.co.jp.
Aim:
We investigated the relationship between a new index considering the estimated working space and difficulty of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) using our database.
Patients And Methods:
Working height was calculated by the obstetric conjugate diameter minus the bladder and rectal wall thicknesses minus the thickness of postvesical fat minus the rectal fat thicknesses measured using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The proportion of working height was calculated by dividing the working height by the obstetric conjugate diameter.
Results:
A total of 112 RARP cases were enrolled. The mean obstetric conjugate was 105 mm and the mean proportion of working height was 72.5%. Multivariate linear regression analysis indicated that the proportion of working height was an independent predictive factor for both console time and estimated blood loss.
Conclusion:
The difficulty of RARP can be predicted by measuring the fat thicknesses around the rectum and bladder by MRI before surgery.
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