Updated nomogram predicting lymph node invasion in patients with prostate cancer undergoing extended pelvic lymph node dissection: The essential importance of percentage of positive cores

European Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 480-487

  Briganti, Alberto ^a   Larcher, Alessandro ^a   Abdollah, Firas ^a   Capitanio, Umberto ^a   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Suardi, Nazareno ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^a   Sun, Maxine ^b   Freschi, Massimo ^a   Salonia, Andrea ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lymph node invasion; Nomogram; Percentage of positive cores; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMOGRAM; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY;

AGED; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NOMOGRAMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856376623     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.10.044     Document Type: Article

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