The role of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in patients with localized prostate cancer remains controversial. Although guidelines are increasingly recommending extended PLND alongside radical ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

PURPOSE: To evaluate our long-term experience with patients treated uniformly with radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection for invasive bladder cancer and to describe the association of ...

The technical challenges and potential complications of extended PLND warrant careful consideration, according to investigators. Perioperative complications increase with the extent of pelvic lymph ...

68Ga-PSMA-11 PET scans have a 40% sensitivity for detecting pelvic nodal metastasis in men with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer, data show. Pelvic lymph node dissection still may be ...

Preoperative (left; top and bottom) and postoperative PSMA-PET/CT images (right; top and bottom) demonstrate the successful removal of two positive pelvic lymph nodes in the radioguided surgical ...