Antonio Benito Porcaro, Rossella Orlando, Andrea Panunzio, Alessandro Tafuri, Alberto Baielli, Francesco Artoni, Francesca Montanaro, Sebastian Gallina, Alberto Bianchi, Giovanni Mazzucato, Emanuele Serafin, Alessandro Veccia, Michele Boldini, Lorenzo Pierangelo Treccani, Riccardo Rizzetto, Matteo Brunelli, Filippo Migliorini, Riccardo Bertolo, Maria Angela Cerruto, Alessandro Antonelli
To evaluate the prognostic potential of the 2012 Briganti nomogram for pelvic lymph node invasion on disease progression after surgery in intermediate-risk (IR) prostate cancer (PCa) patients with favorable tumor grade (International Society of Urological Pathology grade group 1 or 2), eventually associated with adverse clinical features as PSA between 10 and 20 ng/mL and/or clinical stage T2b. All IR PCa patients treated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and eventually extended pelvic lymph node dissection at the Department of Urology of the Integrated University Hospital of Verona between 2013 and 2021, with the abovementioned features, and available follow-up were considered...
March 23, 2024: Journal of Robotic Surgery