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 ...

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

Trials evaluating the safety and necessity of omitting systemic mediastinal lymph node (mLN) dissection in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are still absent. Methods: cN0/N1 NSCLC patients who ...

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 ...

Married Chris from Sandbach, Cheshire, said: “The cancer had already spread to my pelvic lymph nodes and to a vessel near the bladder. “As a result, the prognosis was very poor with the ...

The role of extended pelvic lymph-node dissection (ePLND) in prostate cancer has been revisited in light of evidence from studies on staging via prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission ...

Pelvic exenteration is a major surgery used ... and what the treatment side effects might be. Surgery to remove lymph nodes in the groin is called an inguinal lymph node dissection. Usually, only ...

Objective: This review article summarises the latest evidence for preventive central lymph node dissection in patients with papillary thyroid cancer taking into account the possible complications and ...

In our study comparing O-PCLND and L-PCLND long-term oncological outcome was excellent for both surgical techniques. There were no statistical significant differences between the two cohorts with ...