Preoperative Predictors of Pathological Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection
Babaian KN, Kim DY, Kenney PA, Wood CG, Wong J, Sanchez C, Fang JE, Gerber JA, Didic A, Wahab A, Golla V, Torres C, Tamboli P, Qiao W, Matin SF, Wood CG, Karam JA. Preoperative Predictors of Pathological Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection. Journal Of Urology 2014, 193: 1101-1107. PMID: 25390078, DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.10.096.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRetroperitoneal lymph node dissectionLymph node dissectionRenal cell carcinomaNode dissectionPositive lymph nodesRecurrence-free survivalLymph node metastasisCell carcinomaECOG PSPreoperative predictorsLymph nodesDistant metastasisNode metastasisLocal symptomsCN stageM0 renal cell carcinomaAdvanced renal cell carcinomaPathological lymph node metastasisPreoperative clinical predictorsKaplan-Meier methodLactate dehydrogenasePatients 131PN1 casesPN0 diseasePredictive nomogram