AUA 2006 – Society of Urologic Oncology Meeting: Open Radical Prostatectomy vs. Robotic vs. Laparoscopic
Source: UroToday
UroToday does an excellent job at summarising important talks from the AUAs national meeting.
The urologic experts will continue to have a debate on which of the 3 approaches to radical prostatectomy is best.
Having performed about 6-10 laparoscopic one in training at Indiana University, many open at Indiana and in private practice in New Jersey, and the last 111 radical prostates by robotics, my opinion is clear. Other than the cost and extra time at the beginning to do the operations, there isn’t much downside to robotics for an experienced surgeon.