Clinicopathological predictors of finding additional inguinal lymph node metastases in penile cancer patients after positive dynamic sentinel node biopsy: a European multicentre evaluation.
Hielke Martijn de VriesHack Jae LeeWayne LamRosa S DjajadiningratSarah R OttenhofEduard RousselBin Klaas KroonIgle Jan de JongPedro OliveiraHussain M AlnajjarMaarten AlbersenAsif MuneerVijay SangarArie ParnhamBenjamin AyresNick WatkinSimon HorenblasMartijn M StuiverOscar R BrouwerPublished in: BJU international (2022)
A small but clinically important group of basins harbour additional LNM at completion ILND after positive DSNB. While DSNB characteristics were associated with additional LNM, they did not improve the selection of basins in which ILND could be omitted. Thus, completion ILND remains necessary in all basins with a positive DSNB.