... to cases with abdominal radiotherapy or lymph node dissection. However, such cases have not been reported to date. Thus, the hypothesis of obliterated retroperitoneal lymph vessels causing contralateral groin metastases is plausible but unproven. In the present case series, half of the patients had...

...-PSMA PET/CT-based primary staging prior to consecutive radical prostatectomy and extended lymph node dissection. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) for the detection of lymph node metastases were analyzed per-patient (n = 39), per-pelvic side...

... dissection in intermediate and high-risk patients [ 1, 3 ], a survival benefit of a more extensive lymph node dissection in patients with positive lymph nodes has not yet been demonstrated [ 3‒5 ]. Moreover, studies investigating outcome in those patients are limited by short follow-up [ 4, 6 ]. The aim...

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...Jonas Busch; Stefan Hinz; Carsten Kempkensteffen; Barbara Erber; Christian Klopf; Steffen Weikert; Kurt Miller; Ahmed Magheli Background: No relevant data have been published on the impact of retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (LND) on clinical outcome in patients with castration-resistant...