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The following terms we used in the literature search: prostatectomy, radical prostatectomy, robot assisted, drainage, and drain tube.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We identified six studies that examined the use of routine prophylactic drain tubes following RARP. One of these studies was a randomized study that included 189 patients, with 97 in the pelvic drain (PD) arm and 92 in the no pelvic drain (ND) arm. This non\u2010inferiority showed an early (90\u2010day) complication rate of 17.4% in the ND arm versus 26.8% in the PD arm (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a0.001). Another non\u2010inferiority randomized control trial (RCT) showed a complication rate of 28.9% in the PD group versus 20.4% in the ND group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.254). 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