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Identifying candidates for super-extended staging pelvic lymph node dissection among patients with high-risk prostate cancer.

Giorgio GandagliaEmanuele ZaffutoNicola FossatiMarco BandiniNazareno SuardiElio MazzonePaolo Dell'OglioArmando StabileMassimo FreschiFrancesco MontorsiAlberto Briganti
Published in: BJU international (2017)
Fewer than 5% of patients with an LNI risk of <30% harbour positive common iliac and pre-sacral nodes. A super-extended PLND that includes the dissection of these regions should be considered exclusively in patients with an LNI risk ≥30%.
Keyphrases
  • prostate cancer
  • radical prostatectomy
  • lymph node
  • sentinel lymph node
  • rectal cancer
  • early stage
  • pet ct
  • locally advanced
  • endovascular treatment
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • radiation therapy