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Table 5 Complication rates of pc-RPLND according to grade III–V of the Clavien-Dindo classification—survey of the literature

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

      

Complications

 
     

Caseload

Grade III–IV

Grade V

First author

Ref #

Year

Institution/country

n

pts/year

%

%

Hendry a

32

2002

London /UK

442

19.2

5.6

1.1

Potteka

27

2004

Hamburg/Ger

207

10.4

15.9

0

Spiessa

28

2006

Houston/USA

236

10.3

23.3

1.3

Williamsa

8

2009

Boston/USA

92

11.5

9.8

0

Flechona

29

2010

Lyon/France

151

13.0

14.6

0.7

Subramanian

15

2010

Cleveland/USA

96

13.0

7

1

Luz

30

2010

Montreal/Can

73

4.9

19.2

0

Djaladat

33

2012

Los Angeles/USA

85

12.1

1.2

0

Cary

12

2015

Indiana/USA

755

83.9

1.3

0.3

Considine

34

2016

Dublin/Ireland

78

n.a.

9.0

0

Dusaud

35

2016

Multicenter/France

469

n.a.

2.0

0.2

Wells

31

2016

Multicenter/UK

162

n.a.

17.2

0

Paffenholz

36

2018

Cologne/Ger

162

10.8

7.4

0

Hiester

37

2019

Düsseldorf/Ger

171

10.7

5

1

Gerdtsson

38

2020

Multicenter Sweden/Norway

97

5.0

12.3

0.3

Blok

39

2020

Utrecht/NL/2 ctrs

124

n.a.

9.7

1.6

Present series

 

2020

Hamburg/Ger/2 ctrs

146

11.1

14.4

0

  1. n.a not available, ctrs centers, pts patients, Can Canada, Ger Germany, NL Netherlands, UK United Kingdom
  2. aThese studies did not report according to the Clavien-Dindo system. In these series, data were rated in analogy to the system, and deaths were considered grade V
  3. Caseloads were calculated from published reports according to numbers of patients and time span of patient accrual
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

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