The impact of positive surgical margin parameters and pathological stage on biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Hong Guo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuan Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, First College of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4032-6384

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• Lei Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuan Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Yuan Shao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuan Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Kunyang An,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation First College of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Caoyang Hu ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: eryaoer2003@126.com (CH); liangxz2008@sina.com (XL); urology2007@126.com (DW)

  ¶‡ CH, XL and DW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Xuezhi Liang ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: eryaoer2003@126.com (CH); liangxz2008@sina.com (XL); urology2007@126.com (DW)

  ¶‡ CH, XL and DW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Dongwen Wang

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eryaoer2003@126.com (CH); liangxz2008@sina.com (XL); urology2007@126.com (DW)

  ¶‡ CH, XL and DW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations First College of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6805-780X

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