Retrograde Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Prostatectomy (RELP). A Prospective Study about 1,000 Consecutive Patients, with Oncological and Functional Results.

Purpose: Usual laparoscopic surgery of localized prostate cancer uses antegrade dissection. We describe and evaluate the original RELP (Retrograde Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Prostatectomy).

Materials And Methods: A prospective cohort of 1005 patients with clinical localized cancer prostate were operated from December 1999 to September 2013, in Lyon (France), and followed up to 172 months (median: 60 months).

Mid-term biochemical recurrence-free outcomes following robotic versus laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

We compared 5-year biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free rates for robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP). Three hundred and twelve consecutive patients who underwent RALP from 2003 to 2008 were compared to 97 consecutive LRP patients from 1999 to 2004. All laparoscopic surgeries were performed by one surgeon and robotic surgeries were performed by this surgeon or a laparoscopically naïve surgeon.

[Abdominal management of rectocele and elytrocele: place of the laparoscopic approach].

Aim Of The Study: To report the results of abdominal promontory rectopexy and douglassectomy in the management of rectocele and enterocele.

Patients And Methods: Between 1992 and 2002, 72 patients were operated by one colorectal surgeon. Laparotomy was used in 37 cases between 1992 and 2001 and the laparoscopic approach in 35 cases from 1995 to 2002.