Predictive role of node-rads score in patients with prostate cancer candidates for radical prostatectomy with extended lymph node dissection: comparative analysis with validated nomograms.

Sara LucciolaMartina Lucia PisciottiMarco FrisendaFabio MaglioccaAlessandro GentilucciFrancesco Del GiudiceVittorio CanaleEmiliano ScarroneGian Maria BusettoGiuseppe CarrieriLuigi CormioAntonio CarboneAntonio PastoreCosimo De NunzioAndrea TubaroCostantino LeonardoGiorgio FrancoGiovanni Battista Di PierroStefano SalcicciaAlessandro SciarraValeria Panebianco

Published in: Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases (2022)

Our evaluation suggests that Node RADS score, combining configuration criteria to size determination could improve specificity in terms of pathologic PLN prediction but a very low sensitivity has been also described.

Keyphrases

radical prostatectomy
prostate cancer
lymph node
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
solid phase extraction
squamous cell carcinoma
molecularly imprinted
mass spectrometry
structural basis
contrast enhanced ultrasound