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It has been suggested that up to 40 cases of RALP are required to reach the operative results equal to open surgery. We have hypothesized that previous experience in open and laparoscopic surgeries might shorten the learning curve of robotic surgery. We have retrospectively evaluated the data of all children who underwent pyeloplasty in our institute by a single surgeon since 2003. The children were divided into three groups: open pyeloplasty (OP) of 72 children, laparoscopic pyeloplasty (LAP) of 22, and RALP of 33 patients subsequently. The data included: demographics, duration of surgery, length of stay, success of surgery, and complication rate according to the Clavien-Dindo score. The groups were ordered chronologically by the operation date and each group was divided into two different phases: early and late. A comparison was made between the data of the early and the late phase. There was no difference in the demographic data between the groups; however, the patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery were significantly older compared with the patients from the other groups. The median duration of surgery in the RALP group was significantly shorter than the OP group (65 min v

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Author

David Dothan; Galia Raisin; Jawdat Jaber; Stanislav Kocherov; Boris Chertin

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)