Mattia Longoni, Pietro Scilipoti, Chiara Re, Giuseppe Rosiello, Luigi Nocera, Francesco Pellegrino, Giuseppe Basile, Mario de Angelis, Leonardo Quarta, Giusy Burgio, Andrea Necchi, Antonio Cigliola, Arturo Chiti, Maria Picchio, Andrea Salonia, Alberto Briganti, Francesco Montorsi, Marco Moschini
OBJECTIVE: To assess the diagnostic performance of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomograpy (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in nodal staging before radical cystectomy (RC) and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) for bladder cancer (BCa). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This analysis was based on a cohort of 199 BCa patients undergoing RC and bilateral PLND between 2015 and 2022. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) or immunotherapy (NAI) was administered after oncological evaluation...
April 15, 2024: BJU International