Salvage robotic prostatectomy for radio recurrent prostate cancer: Technical challenges and outcome analysis

Abstract

Introduction: The published data on salvage robot assisted radical prostatectomy (sRARP) is limited. Our aim was to perform a systematic review of the literature on sRARP after radiation failure in patients with prostate cancer and systematically analyse the available evidence for operative and oncological outcomes. Evidence Acquisition: A systematic review of the literature using Pubmed, Scopus, Cochrane library and ScienceDirect databases was performed in June 2016 using medical subject headings and free-text protocol. The search was conducted by applying the following search terms: salvage therapy, salvage, prostatectomy and robotics. Evidence Synthesis: We report on ten case series inclu..