Background Preoperative assessment of the risk of lymph node invasion (LNI) is mandatory
to identify prostate cancer (PCa) patients who should receive an extended pelvic lymph …

Pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) currently represents the gold standard method for
nodal staging in the setting of localised prostate cancer and may also have a therapeutic …

Background Several reports have shown that patients who undergo minimally invasive
radical prostatectomy have a lower chance of undergoing pelvic lymph node dissection …

Introduction The aim of this study was to determine the optimal number of examined lymph
nodes (ELNs) for accurate staging of pancreatic cancer using the nodal staging score …

Background: Pelvic lymph node dissection in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy for
clinically localised prostate cancer is not without morbidity and its therapeutical benefit is still …

Background The study aimed at establishing a nodal staging score (NSS) to quantify the
likelihood that pathologic node-negative gallbladder cancer (GBC) patients are indeed free …

Background The minimum number of lymph nodes (LNs) that should be resected for
accurate nodal staging in patients with ampullary carcinoma (AC) remains controversial …

The lymph nodal invasion diagnosis is critical for therapeutic-decision and follows up in
gastric cancer. However, the number of nodes to be examined for nodal invasion diagnosis …

Objective No guideline has been provided to assess the minimal number of lymph nodes
(LNs) that should be dissected for accurate staging in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer …

Background Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with lymph node
metastasis may be misclassified as pN0 due to an insufficient number of lymph nodes …