Clinical parameters for the prediction of occult lymph node metastasis in patients with negative PSMA-PET

CONCLUSION: The currently used nomogram is suboptimal in detecting patients with occult LNM. While the cut-off value to perform ePLND can be increased slightly following a negative PSMA-PET scan, more accurate methods of identifying these patients are needed. Whether ePLND can have a therapeutic benefit, as opposed to a diagnostic only, needs to be re-evaluated in the PSMA-PET era.PMID:38246806 | DOI:10.1016/j.urolonc.2023.12.016

Source: Urologic Oncology - January 21, 2024 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Nicolai A Huebner Gabriel Wasinger Pawel Rajwa Irene Resch Stephan Korn Sazan Rasul Pascal Baltzer Larissa Pr üger Andreas Rauschmeier Christian Seitz Eva Comperat Shahrokh F Shariat Bernhard Grubm üller Source Type: research