Clinical impact of psoas muscle volume on the development of inguinal hernia after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Tatsuya OtakiMasanori HasegawaSoichiro YuzurihaIzumi HanadaKentaro NagaoTatsuya UmemotoYuki ShimizuMasayoshi KawakamiNobuyuki NakajimaHakushi KimMasahiro NittaKazuya HanaiYoshiaki KawamuraSunao ShojiAkira Miyajima

Published in: Surgical endoscopy (2020)

PIH occurred significantly more frequently in patients with a PMV < 350 cm3 than in patients with a PMV ≥ 350 cm3, and a low PMV was an independent risk factor for PIH. Thus, urologists should pay attention to the cumulative incidence of IH after RARP, especially in patients with a PMV < 350 cm3.

Keyphrases

radical prostatectomy
robot assisted
prostate cancer
minimally invasive
skeletal muscle
working memory
risk factors
health insurance