Major complications of post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in a contemporary cohort of patients with testicular cancer and a review of the literature

Table 1 Clinical details of patients included in the study

	Post-chemotherapy RPLND (n = 147)	Primary RPLND (n = 35)	Laparoscopic RPLND (n = 19)
Age (years) median (IQR) range	30 (23–37) 14–82	29 (24–37) 16–57	31 (25–35) 17–55
BMI (kg/m²) median (IQR) range	25.2 (22.6–28.4) 17–37	25.8 (21.7–27.7) 17–46	26.0 (23.1–28.7) 20–38
Seminoma as primary tumour	17/147 (11.6%)	1/35 (2.9%)	0/19 (0%)
Teratoma predominant in primary tumour	18/147 (12.2%)	5/35 (14.3%)	4/19 (21.1%)
Operation time (min) median (IQR) range	269 (215–378) 66–735	246 (201–329) 50–440	165 (106–207) 57–234
Median number of fields resected ^a	5	4	4
Primary tumour right-sided	68/147 (46.3%)	14/35 (40%)	7/19 (36.8%)

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