Clinical nodal staging scores for bladder cancer: a proposal for preoperative risk assessment.

  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Behfar Ehdaie
  • Michael Rink
  • Eugene K Cha
  • Robert S Svatek
  • Thomas F Chromecki
  • Harun Fajkovic
  • Giacomo Novara
  • Scott G David
  • Siamak Daneshmand
  • Yves Fradet
  • Yair Lotan
  • Arthur I Sagalowsky
  • Thomas Clozel
  • Patrick J Bastian
  • Wassim Kassouf
  • Hans-Martin Fritsche
  • Maximilian Burger
  • Jonathan I Izawa
  • Derya Tilki
  • Firas Abdollah
  • Felix Chun
  • Guru Sonpavde
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz
  • Douglas S Scherr
  • Mithat Gonen

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Abstract

Radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection (LND) is the standard of care for refractory non-muscle-invasive and muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Although consensus exists on the need for LND, its extent is still debated.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
ISSN0302-2838
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22033174