Johannes Bobjer, Axel Gerdtsson, Johan Abrahamsson, Gediminas Baseckas, Mats Bergkvist, Mats Bläckberg, Johan Brändstedt, Georg Jancke, Oskar Hagberg, Petter Kollberg, Karl-Johan Lundström, Annica Löfgren, Martin Nyberg, Liselotte Rian Mårtensson, Ymir Saemundsson, Elin Ståhl, Anne Sörenby, Åsa Warnolf, Fredrik Liedberg
BACKGROUND: There is limited information on the distribution of retroperitoneal lymph node metastases (LNMs) in upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). OBJECTIVE: To investigate the location of LNMs in UTUC of the renal pelvis or proximal ureter and short-term complications after radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with lymph node dissection (LND). DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This was a prospective Nordic multicenter study (four university hospitals, two county hospitals)...
November 2023: European urology open science