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Table 2 Complications classified by unweighted severity grades

From: The postoperative morbidity index: a quantitative weighing of postoperative complications applied to urological procedures

  

Severity grade

n

Procedure

0*

1

2

3

4

5

6

 

Inflatable penile prosthesis

13

2

1

 

2

  

18

Nephrourete rectomy

42

2

9

1

4

1

 

59

Partial nephrectomy

8

 

3

 

2

  

13

Percutaneous nephrostomy tube

31

1

1

    

33

Radical cystectomy

3

3

3

1

2

1

 

13

Radical prostatectomy

101

10

5

1

1

  

118

ESWL

33

2

  

1

  

36

Transurethral destruction of bladder lesion

32

2

  

4

1

 

39

Transurethral prostatectomy

56

15

5

1

10

  

87

Transurethral removal of ureteral obstruction

120

24

3

 

12

  

159

Ureteral catheterization

67

8

3

1

   

79

Subtotal by grade

506

69

33

5

38

3

0

654

Subtotal by grade (%)

 

47%

22%

3%

26%

2%

0%

 
  1. *“0” means no complications.