Nodal Staging Articles

Lymph node involvement in bladder cancer is common and has prognostic implications. Early and accurate identification of metastatic lymph nodes is, therefore, important in ensuring appropriate patient triage and management.

Current pathological nodal staging for bladder cancer is based on lymph node (LN) location but not on the number of positive LNs.

We sought to improve prognostic classification by creating a novel staging system incorporating positive LN burden.

Prostate cancer pathological nodal staging uses a single category for all node-positive patients. We sought to improve risk stratification by creating and validating a novel pathological nodal staging system incorporating number of metastatic lymph nodes (+LNs).

The presence of lymph node metastasis is the most important prognostic factor in penile cancer (PeCa). Due to limited sensitivity of currently available imaging modalities, invasive staging approaches remain indispensable for adequate nodal staging.

The diagnosis of occult inguinal lymph node metastasis in clinically node-negative invasive penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) has remained a challenge, with substantial perioperative complications.

Robot-assisted imaging-guided sentinel lymph node biopsy is a novel technique that has not been widely investigated in testicular germ cell tumor (GCT). Current staging strategies have poor accuracy for prediction of occult metastatic disease in clinical stage I GCT.

There are several procedures for surgical nodal staging in clinically node-negative (cN0) penile carcinoma.

To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy, perioperative outcomes, and complications of minimally invasive surgical procedures for nodal staging in penile carcinoma.