WHEN IS PELVIC LYMPH NODE DISSECTION NECESSARY BEFORE RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY? A DECISION ANALYSIS
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- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 164 (4) , 1235-1240
Abstract
Conclusions We performed formal decision analysis to determine the incidence of lymph node metastasis below which pelvic lymph node dissection is not warranted at radical retropubic prostatectomy. Our results suggest that lymph node dissection is unnecessary in the subset of patients in which the risk of lymph node involvement is less than 18%.Keywords
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