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advantageous to decreased formation of scar tissue. Recent data comparing ICUD and ECUD have shown a trend toward better overall complication rates and lower gastrointestinal complications with ICUD. 8 Moreover, intraoperative use of ICG has been recently shown to improve real-time assessment of ureteral blood supply, significantly reducing the rates of UES in a cohort of patients undergoing RARC with ICUD. 9 Therefore, definitive answers should come from prospective studies comparing the efficacy of RARC and ICUD to ORC, such as a phase III randomized controlled trial being currently conducted in England. 10