Experience of one single surgeon with the first 500 robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy cases in mainland China

Objectives: To summarize the experience of the first 500 robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) cases by one surgeon and analyze the influencing factors of functional and oncological outcomes. Methods: Between April 2012 and October 2017, 500 patients who underwent RALP were included and divided sequentially into five equal groups. Patients’ preoperative, perioperative and postoperative outcomes were analyzed and evaluated, and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze and compare the effect of surgeon experience by case. Results: There is a statistically significant reduction in operative time, intraoperative estimated blood loss and postoperative hospital stay time (all p