Table 1: Summary of all studies about Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

First author & year

Study design

Participants

RS-RARP

C-RARP

Mean age (years)

Risk of bias

Chang 2018 [21]

Case-control

60

30

30

66.2

Unclear

Dalela 2017 [18]

RCT

120

60

60

61.2

Low

Eden 2017 [20]

Retrospective

80

40

40

64

Unclear

Ghanem 2017 [9]

Prospective

102

51

51

61.9

Unclear

Kiat Lim 2014 [12]

Retrospective

100

50

50

65.9

Unclear

Menon 2017 [11]

RCT

Low

Sayyid 2017 [22]

Prospective

200

100

100

61.5

Unclear

Tobias Machado 2017 [26]

Prospective

60

30

30

63.9

Unclear

RCT = Randomised Controlled Trial; RS-RARP = Retzius-Sparing; C-RARP = Conventional Approach.