Minh Nguyen, MS2, from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, presented findings on the evolving trends in pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) during radical prostatectomy. Her ...

Prospective nonrandomized evidence demonstrated a survival benefit for extended pelvic lymph node dissection. Improvement on staging has also been suggested by the presence of skip metastatic ...

To show that Robotic-Assisted Retroperitoneal Lymph-Node Dissection (RA-RPLND) is feasible, safe and has good oncological outcomes for patients. We present one of the first case series from the UK ...

THIS YEAR the Spanish capital, Madrid, provided the backdrop for Europe’s biggest urological event, the 40th Annual European ...

This means you will have several small cuts (incisions) rather than one longer one. This is sometimes called laparoscopic or robotic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Keyhole surgery is very ...

In cases of cervical cancer, thirty-seven patients underwent extrafascial hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND). Twelve patients with preoperative diagnoses ...

A lymph node dissection is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of the level 1 and 2 lymph nodes in the axilla (armpit). Removing a few lymph nodes doesn’t always cause problems and it ...

A new study by doctors at AIIMS, Delhi, has found that taking out certain lymph nodes from the pelvis and the back of the abdomen can help women with ovarian cancer live longer. The research was ...