Perioperative Outcomes and Recovery After Robot-Assisted vs Open Radical Hysterectomy

Results of this secondary analysis of the RACC randomized clinical trial show that robot-assisted radical hysterectomy was associated with fewer intraoperative complications, primarily reflecting lower-grade events, with similar postoperative morbidity compared with open surgery. Differences in early HRQOL were small, and overall findings indicate no improvement in clinically consequential postoperative outcomes or recovery.

Corresponding Author: Sahar Salehi, MD, PhD, Department of Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Eugeniavägen 3, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden (sahar.salehi@ki.se).

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