Can sentinel pelvic lymph node dissection replace extended pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with prostate cancer?

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 636-637

  Janetschek, Günter ^a  

^a ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCELE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MICROMETASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; PELVIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 36949001803     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0942     Document Type: Article

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