Intra-corporeal robot-assisted versus open radical cystectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis comparing perioperative and long-term survival outcomes and recurrence patterns.
Kenji ZennamiMakoto SumitomoKiyoshi TakaharaTakuhisa NukayaMasashi TakenakaKosuke FukayaManabu IchinoNaohiko FukamiHitomi SasakiMamoru KusakaRyoichi ShirokiPublished in: International journal of clinical oncology (2021)
iRARC has favorable perioperative outcomes, fewer complications, and comparable long-term survival outcomes, including locally advanced (≥ cT3) disease, compared to that in ORC. Our results need to be validated in prospective randomized clinical trials.
Keyphrases
- robot assisted
- locally advanced
- cardiac surgery
- patients undergoing
- minimally invasive
- squamous cell carcinoma
- rectal cancer
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- risk factors
- radiation therapy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- acute kidney injury
- image quality
- magnetic resonance
- lymph node
- positron emission tomography
- double blind