Clinical significance of pelvic lymph node status in prostate cancer: review of 1690 cases
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2016
Short description:
Clinical significance of pelvic lymph node status in prostate cancer: review of 1690 cases / Maccio, Livia; Barresi, Valeria; Domati, Federica; Martorana, Eugenio; Cesinaro, Anna Maria; Migaldi, Mario; Iachetta, Francesco; Ieni, Antonio; Bonetti, Luca Reggiani. - In: INTERNAL AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE. - ISSN 1828-0447. - 11:3(2016), pp. 399-404. [10.1007/s11739-015-1375-5]
abstract:
To assess whether any relationship exists between the number of histologically examined lymph nodes and the detection of metastases in pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) specimens taken from patients with radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostatic adenocarcinoma. 1690 cases of RP with PNLD were included in the study; 54Â % of the patients were submitted to extended PLND (ePLND). KaplanâMeier curves confirm the negative prognostic significance of nodal metastases on the overall patientsâ survival (PÂ
Iris type:
Articolo su rivista
Keywords:
Lymph nodes dissection; Lymphadenectomy; Metastases; Prostatic cancer; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biopsy, Needle; Cohort Studies; Databases, Factual; Disease-Free Survival; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Lymph Node Excision; Lymph Nodes; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplasm Staging; Pelvis; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Prostate-Specific Antigen; Prostatectomy; Prostatic Neoplasms; ROC Curve; Retrospective Studies; Survival Rate; Internal Medicine; Emergency Medicine
List of contributors:
Maccio, Livia; Barresi, Valeria; Domati, Federica; Martorana, Eugenio; Cesinaro, Anna Maria; Migaldi, Mario; Iachetta, Francesco; Ieni, Antonio; Bonetti, Luca Reggiani
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