Unilateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection in Prostate Cancer Patients Diagnosed in the Era of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-targeted Biopsy: A Study That Challenges the Dogma.
Alberto MartiniLieke WeverTimo F W SoeterikArnas RakauskasChristian Daniel FankhauserJosias Bastian GroggEnrico CheccucciDaniele AmparoreLuciano HaiquelLara Rodriguez-SanchezGuillaume PloussardPeng QiangAndres AffentrangerAlessandro MarquisGiancarlo MarraOtto EttalaFabio ZattoniUgo Giovanni FalagarioMario De AngelisClaudia KeschMaria ApfelbeckTarek Al-HammouriAlexander KretschmerVeeru KasivisvanathanFelix PreisserEmilie LefebvreJonathan OlivierJan Philipp RadtkeAlberto BrigantiFrancesco MontorsiGiuseppe CarrieriFabrizio Dal MoroPeter BoströmIvan JamborPaolo GonteroPeter K ChiuHubert JohnPetr MacekFrancesco PorpigliaThomas HermannsRoderick C N van den BerghJean-Paul A van BastenGiorgio GandagliaMassimo ValerioPublished in: The Journal of urology (2023)
Pelvic lymph node dissection could be omitted contralateral to the prostate lobe with worse disease features in selected patients. We propose a model that can help avoid contralateral pelvic lymph node dissection in almost one-third of cases.