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Abbreviations & Acronyms ACCI = age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index AKI = acute kidney injury BMI = body mass index CI = confidence interval CKD = chronic kidney disease EBL = estimated blood loss eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate LPN = laparoscopic partial nephrectomy MAG3 = mercaptoacetyltriglycine OR = odds ratio PN = partial nephrectomy PPR = parenchymal preservation ratio R.E.N.A.L. = radius, exophytic/endophytic properties, nearness of tumor to sinus, anterior/posterior, location RCC = renal cell carcinoma RPN = robot-assisted partial nephrectomy SD = standard deviation

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Abstract. The present study aimed to evaluate the possibility of performing radical prostatectomy (RP) alone to achieve a radical cure for prostate cancer in the intermediate-risk group. Samples were collected from 638 Japanese patients who underwent antegrade RP between August 1998 and May 2013; subsequently, 157 patients were excluded. According to the D' Amico criteria, the low-, intermediate-and high-risk groups comprised 107, 222 and 152 patients, respectively. The 5-year prostate-specific antigen (PSA) failure-free survival rates in the low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups were 96.5, 88.9 and 72.6%, respectively (P<0.001; degrees of freedom=2). In the intermediate-risk group, the difference in PSA failure-free survival between the 0

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