...Ruotao Xiao; Chuxiao Xu; Liyuan Ge; Wei He; Bin Yang; Lei Liu; Cheng Liu; Lulin Ma Introductions: The objective of this study was to determine the prognostic value of positive lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and tumor thrombus (TT) and to explore risk factors...

... the prognostic values of examined (dissected) lymph node (ELN), negative lymph node (NLN), and positive (metastatic) lymph node (PLN) counts and lymph node (LNs) ratio in PCa patients. Methods: We extracted data of PCa patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results...

... with occult lymph node micrometastases (pN1 disease) in a contemporary cohort of organ-confined prostate cancer (PCA) patients staged as cN0. Materials and Methods: The study evaluated 184 consecutive patients. Associations of clinical factors with pN1 disease were assessed by multivariate logistic regression...

... with secondary urethral recurrence after radical cystectomy were excluded from this study. We assessed the following clinical and pathologic parameters: age at primary treatment, gender, clinical and pathologic tumor stage, clinical and histopathologic lymph node (LN) involvement, histologic subtype...

... for lymph node (LN) staging in bladder cancer. Methods: Two uroradiologists reviewed CT scans of 231 patients who underwent radical cystectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy according to a predefined 12-field template. A 5-step model was used to grade the radiological likelihood of a LN to represent malignant...

... clinical stage at diagnosis and also that there is a lack of effective systemic therapy. We herein present the case of a 32-year-old woman suffering from node-positive Xp11.2 translocation renal cell carcinoma who underwent radical nephrectomy with an extensive retroperitoneal lymph node dissection...

... of the fact that this kind of tumor has a high recurrence rate and early regional lymph node involvement. Considering these facts, we used preoperative lymphoscintigraphy, intraoperative lymph node mapping and sentinel node biopsy before performing a bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy in 1 of 3 patients...

... salvage therapy might offer the chance of long-term survival in selected cases. Close and life-long follow-up is advisable for patients once treated for recurrent urological malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Urological neoplasms Sarcoma Histiocytoma Local recurrence Lymph node Radiotherapy 4...