MAZZONE E.

Objectives: To assess if the preoperative lymph node invasion (LNI) risk could be used to tailor the extent of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) according to individual profile in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP), and to identify those who would benefit from the removal of the common iliac and...

Purpose: To assess the current status and future potential of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and MRI-targeted biopsy (MRI-TBx) on the pretherapeutic risk assessment in prostate cancer patients' candidates for radical prostatectomy. Methods: A literature search of the MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus database was performed. English-language original and...

Purpose:Improved cancer control with increasing surgical experience (the learning curve) has been demonstrated for open and laparoscopic prostatectomy. We assessed the relationship between surgical experience and oncologic outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.Materials and Methods:We analyzed the records of 1,827 patients in whom...

Purpose: The Deyo adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index (DaCCI), which relies on 17 comorbid condition groupings defined with 200 ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes, lacks specificity in the context of radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer (BCa). We attempted to develop a new comorbidity assessment tool based on individual comorbid...