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 BrigantiPublished 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%.